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Install on hard disk

First backup all your sensible and important data (use an external hard disk attached with USB2 or Firewire). This is not because this process will hurt your data, but for your own safety, especially if you are new to GNU/Linux operating systems, be ready to recover your installation.

Now please read this tutorial and learn how to turn a fresh Debian installation into an ArtistX customization.

Have fun!

STEP 1: INSTALL THE DEBIAN UNIVERSAL OPERATING SYSTEM

First of all shrink your Windows partition to make room for the new system. There is a tutorial at Howtoforge but take in consideration the possibility of dedicating a whole new hard disk to your GNU/Linux installation especially if you are new to this kind of systems.

Now you need to download from here the Net Installation CD image (as of the moment I'm writing is called debian-40r1-i386-netinst.iso) and now you can burn the cd from this .iso image. Once you have your cd ready you need to boot your pc from this cd and once you have booted from CD you can see the first sceen with the boot: prompt. If you want to install installation in graphical mode you need to write “installgui” you can see this in the following screen and after that, jusy press your “Enter” key.

Now you need to select your language here we have selected English and click on continue button using your mouse.

Next screen you can select the country in this we have selected united kingdom and click on continue.

Now you need to select your keyboard layout here we have selected British Engish and click on continue.

In the next steps the installer will do a lot of automatic work:

1) it will try to detect your cd-rom and mount automatically.
2) it will try to load installer components.
3) It will try to detect your network hardware and configure your network with DHCP settings.

If you have a usb adsl modem or any other modem which is not a network card you should seek advice from a friend or a local linux user group because the variants ar literally hundreds and we cannot go into details here. Please remember to chose a connectivity provider that doesn't bind you only to Win or Mac operating systems and overall try to have the "network" version of your modem (not usb, the one that attaches directly to your ethernet card on your pc).

Now you need to enter the hostname for your machine (I have entered as debian here) and click on continue.

Next step is you can enter the domain name (for example: - yoursite.com) and click on continue. This is not mandatory.

Now it will try to detect your hard disks guide you in partitioning your disks. In this example a virtual machine setup is used (like Vmware, VirtualPC, VirtualBox, Qemu and so on), so we chose the first “Erase entire disk” option. If you have any other operating system on your machine, you would rather like to choose the third option, and “Manually edit partition table”. Your existing partitions will show up there. This is again a fairly complicated process so seek advice from a friend or from your local linux user group. There are many tutorials on Internet about this so we will not cover this in details but remember that this is the only operation that can possibly put you in trouble so make sure you know what you are doing.

When you're done with partitioning you will need to set up root user’s password. This is the administrative account (super user) so chose a strong password (not like "debian" or "d3b1an" but more like "D3b1An!" using capital letters and special punctuation).

Then you create a normal user account which you will actually use later to work on the machine. So if this is your machine, just type in your own full name here.

Enter the password for your user two times here and click on continue.

Now it will try to install the base system progress. When it's finished select the checkbox if your machine is networked to make sure you get the latest versions of all your programs, as well as security updates.

Now you need to select your country name and mirror you want to use here and click on continue.

Now it will ask you if you want to participate in debian popularity contest (it's a way to tell to Debian developers which software the users work on more frequently) so if you want to partecipate tick the check box or otherwise don’t select the checkbox and click on continue.

Here you need to select the software you want to install in your machine and click on continue. Chose only Desktop environment and Standard system on a desktop (tower, middletower...) pc and add also Laptop system if you are installing on a notebook.

As for the mail server select the "no configuration at this time" option and click on continue.

Here just confirm that you want to leave the mail server unconfigured.

Here you can select the default wordlist or you can change and click on continue.

Next it will be configuring your sound settings automagically and on the next step you can select your ispell dictionaries and click on continue.

Now you need to select you X server settings (like the resolution, refresh) and click on continue.

Now it is the time to install your bootloader select the checkbox in this Screen and click on continue.

This is the finishing Installation screen. Installation was successfully completed and you need to remove your CD from your machine and click on continue to reboot your new Debian system. That’s it: Debian Graphical-mode installation completed.

STEP 2: ADD THE ARTISTX CUSTOMIZATIONS

When you have finished installing Debian just open a terminal and write "su" followed by your password to become root and then "aptitude install aa3d aatv abcde abcmidi abcmidi-yaps aconnectgui acpi acpi-support acpid adplay albumshaper ale alien alsa-base alsa-firmware-loaders alsamixergui alsa-base alsa-oss alsaplayer-alsa alsaplayer-common alsaplayer-daemon alsaplayer-esd alsaplayer-gtk alsaplayer-jack alsaplayer-nas alsaplayer-oss alsaplayer-text alsaplayer-xosd alsa-source alsa-tools alsa-tools-gui alsa-utils ample ams amsynth anacron apmd aqsis ardour-doc ardour-gtk ardour-session-exchange arts artsbuilder ascd ascdc asmixer audacity audiolink audiooss aumix-gtk autotrace aview avifile-player avifile-utils awesfx babygimp barcode beep beep-media-player beep-media-player-scrobbler beep-media-player-wma bitscope blender blender-ogrexml blop bluetooth bmp-crossfade bongo bplay bristol brutefir bse-alsa bum byzanz cadubi camediaplay camera.app caps cbrpager cccd cdcd cdda2wav cddb cddb.bundle cd-discid cdlabelgen cdparanoia cdtool cecilia cenon.app cervisia cfourcc chbg checkmp3 cheesetracker chuck cinepaint cinepaint-data cmt cmus coriander cowbell cplay cpufrequtils creox crip csound ctn cups-pdf cupsys-driver-gimpprint cupsys-driver-gutenprint cwcdr cynthiune.app darkice dbmix dcd dcraw denemo deskbar-applet device3dfx-source dguitar dia dia-common dia-libs digikam digikamimageplugins digikamimageplugins-doc digitaldj dime distmp3 djview djvulibre-bin djvulibre-plugin dosbox dosemu drip dtmfdial dvbsnoop dvgrab dvr easyh10 easytag ecamegapedal ecasound ecasound-el ecawave effectv eflite electricsheep emms enscribe epos epstool esound esound-clients esound-common etktab exif exiftags exiftran exiv2 exrtools extace eyed3 fapg faust fbi fbtv feh festalon festival festival-czech festival-freebsoft-utils festlex-cmu festlex-ifd festlex-poslex festvox-czech-ph festvox-don festvox-italp16k festvox-itapc16k festvox-kallpc16k festvox-kdlpc16k festvox-rablpc16k festvox-suopuhe-common festvox-suopuhe-lj festvox-suopuhe-mv ffmpeg ffmpeg2theora fig2sxd fil-plugins findimagedupes firefox flac flac123 flite flpsed fluidsynth flumotion flydraw fmit fmtools fnlib-data fontforge fonttools foomatic-filters-ppds freebirth freebirth-data freej freepats freewheeling freqtweak fujiplay fyre gaim galan gamix gatos gcdmaster gdancer gdmap gem gif2png gifsicle giftrans gimageview gimp gimp2.0-quiteinsane gimp-cbmplugs gimp-data gimp-data-extras gimp-dbg gimp-dimage-color gimp-gap gimp-helpbrowser gimp-print gimp-python gimp-resynthesizer gimp-svg gimp-texturize gimp-ufraw gjay gkrellmms gkrellm-radio gkrellmss gkrellm-volume gkrellxmms2 glame glide2-bin gliv gmod gmpc gmpc-dev gnome-power-manager gnomoradio gnuift gnuift-doc gnuift-perl gnump3d gnupod-tools gnusound gocr gocr-gtk gocr-tk gom gopchop gozer gpe-julia gpscorrelate gpscorrelate-gui gqcam gqmpeg gqview gradio gramofile grandfatherclock graphicsmagick graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat graphviz gsfonts-other gstreamer-editor gstreamer0.10-alsa gstreamer0.10-audiosink gstreamer0.10-plugins-base-dbg gstreamer0.10-x gstreamer0.10-plugins-base-doc libgstreamer0.10-0 gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-colorspace gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-plugins-farsight gstreamer0.10-pitfdll gstreamer0.10-videosink gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-dbg gstreamer0.10-plugins-good-dbg gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-doc gstreamer0.10-plugins-good-doc gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-doc gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3 gstreamer0.10-esd libgstreamer0.10-ruby1.8 gstreamer0.10-plugins-base-apps libgstreamer0.10-dev gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs gstreamer0.10-plugins-base gstreamer0.10-gnonlin gstreamer0.10-tools gstreamer0.10-gnonlin-dev libgstreamer0.10-0-dbg gsumi gtick gtk2-engines-cleanice gtk2-engines-geramik gtk2-engines-magicchicken gtk2-engines-pixbuf gtk2-engines-qtpixmap gtk2-engines-thingeramik gtkam gtkam-gimp gtkmorph gtkmorph-example gtkpod gtksee gwc gxine gxineplugin gxmms2 hasciicam helix-player hibernate hocr-gtk horgand hotkey-setup hp2xx hugin hugin-bin hugin-data hugin-tools hydrogen hydrogen-drumkits icecast2 icecast-server ices2 icedove icoutils id3 id3ed id3ren id3tool id3v2 iec16022 ifpgui ifp-line ifp-line-libifp ihu imgseek imlib-base inkscape inventor-clients inventor-data inventor-demo ipe ircmarkers iripdb irmp3 irmp3-ncurses istanbul ivtools-bin jack jackbeat jackd jackeq jack-rack jack-tools jamin jhead jpeginfo jpegoptim jpegpixi juice juke k3b k3d k3d-dev kaboodle kaffeine kamera karbon kaudiocreator kcoloredit kdeaddons kdegraphics kdegraphics-doc-html kdemultimedia kdenetwork kdepim kdvi kfax kfaxview kgamma kghostview kiconedit kino kinoplus kipi-plugins kivio kivio-data kluppe kmid kmix kmplayer koffice kolourpaint konqueror kooka kover kpdf kphone kphotoalbum kpovmodeler kradio krec krecord kruler kscd ksnapshot kstars kstreamripper ksvg ktoon kuickshow kview kviewshell ladcca-bin ladccad ladspa-sdk lakai lash-bin lashd lastfm lastfmsubmitd lastmp ld10k1 leptonica-progs libcdparanoia0 libdv-bin libflash-swfplayer libgd-ruby1.8 libgd-tools libggigcp1 libgsm-tools libgstreamer-plugins-pulse0.10-0 libhdf4g-run libjasper-runtime libjmagick6-java libjmagick6-jni libjpeg-progs libmodplug0c2 libmodplug-dev libmusicbrainz-ruby1.8 libpano12-bin libpulse-browse0 libpulse-mainloop-glib0 libqcad0-dev librplay3 librsvg2-bin libstk0c2a libstk0-dev libtiff-opengl libtiff-tools libtunepimp-bin libungif-bin libvips-tools libvisual-0.4-plugins libwmf-bin lingoteach-sound-english lingoteach-sound-german lingoteach-sound-spanish linphone linphone-common linphone-nox linux-patch-bootsplash linux-sound-base linux-uvc-source linux-uvc-tools liveice lltag lmms lmms-common lprof lsb-graphics madman madplay makexvpics mas-server mas-utils mcdp mcp-plugins mctools-lite medcon menu mesademos metacam metapixel meterbridge mhwaveedit midge midish mikmod min12xxw mixer.app mixxx mixxx-data mkcue mkvtoolnix mkvtoolnix-gui mma moc moc-ffmpeg-plugin moosic motion motioneye movixmaker-2 mozilla-plugin-vlc mp32ogg mp3blaster mp3burn mp3c mp3cd mp3check mp3gain mp3info mp3info-gtk mp3rename mp3roaster mp3splt mp3val mp3wrap mpc mpc123 mpd mpdcon.app mpdscribble mpegdemux mpg123 mpg123-alsa mpg123-el mpg123-esd mpg123-nas mpg123-oss-3dnow mpg123-oss-i486 mpg321 mpgtx mrwtoppm mrwtoppm-data mrwtoppm-gimp mrwtoppm-utils msc mserv mserv-cgi mserv-client mt-daapd muse music123 nas nas-bin ncmpc netpbm nip2 noatun noatun-plugins normalize-audio noteedit noteedit-data nyquist ocrad oggfwd ogle ogmtools ogre-tools om om-gtk omins om-patches openclipart openclipart-openoffice.org openclipart-png openclipart-svg opencubicplayer openexr openmash openmovieeditor openoffice.org-gnome openoffice.org-gtk openoffice.org openscenegraph openssh-client openssl optipng orpheus ospics oss-compat ov511-source oxine partlibrary passepartout patchage paul pcmciautils pdftoipe pd-pdp pd-zexy peercast peercast-handlers peercast-servent pencam photopc photoprint pic2fig pitivi pixelize pixmap playmidi playmp3list pmidi png2html pngcrush pngmeta pngnq pngquant poc-streamer podracer poe.app positron poster potrace potracegui povray povray-3.6 povray-3.6-doc povray-3.6-examples povray-3.6-includes powernowd preview.app price.app prokyon3 propaganda-debian ps2eps pstoedit puredata pwc-source python2.3-eyed3 python2.4-eyed3 python-alsaaudio pythoncad python-eyed3 python-musicbrainz pytone pyxmms-remote qcad qcad-doc qcam qiv qjackctl qliss3d qlo10k1 qsynth quark quelcom quicktime-utils quiteinsane radio randomplay rawstudio recite recoverjpeg reppu rexima rezound rio rioutil ripit ripperx rocklight rosegarden rosegarden2 rosegarden4 rosegarden-data rplay-client rplay-contrib rplay-server sailcut sam2p sane sane-utils saydate saytime scansort scantv schism scribus scribus-ng scribus-template scrot seq24 serpentine sfftobmp sffview sfront shaketracker shanty shapelib showimg sidplay sidplay-base sig2dot skencil sketch slimp3 slimscrobbler slimserver smb4k smilutils smpeg-gtv smpeg-plaympeg smpeg-xmms snd snd-gtk sng snowflake softbeep somaplayer songwrite sooperlooper sound-icons sound-recorder soundstretch sox specimen speech-dispatcher speech-dispatcher-festival speech-tools speex sphinx2-bin sphinx2-hmm-6k spiralsynthmodular splashy splashy-themes splay springgraph stereograph stk stk-doc stopmotion streamer streamripper subtitleeditor supercollider supercollider-dev supercollider-doc supercollider-server svgalib-bin swami sweep swh-plugins synaesthesia synaptic synfig synfigstudio t1-xfree86-nonfree tagtool tapiir tap-plugins tcd tclmagick tcm tedia2sql telegnome terminatorx texgd textdraw tgif thuban timemachine timidity timidity-el timidity-interfaces-extra tioga tk707 tkmixer tkpaint toolame tpp transcriber transfig tse3play ttf-bitstream-vera ttf-freefont ttf-gentium ttf-georgewilliams ttf-mgopen ttf-xfree86-nonfree ttv tulip tv-fonts tvtime tuxpaint tuxpaint-config tuxpaint-data tuxpaint-stamps-default tv-fonts twolame ufraw unpaper uswsusp v4l-conf vamps vcdimager vcf vcg vdr vertex vgrabbj videolink view3ds vkeybd vlc vlc-plugin-alsa vlc-plugin-arts vlc-plugin-esd vlc-plugin-ggi vlc-plugin-glide vlc-plugin-sdl vlc-plugin-svgalib vls volumecontrol.app vorbisgain vorbis-tools vsound vstream vtkdata vtk-examples vux wallp wav2cdr wavesurfer wavpack wavsplit wings3d wireless-tools wmcdplay wmrack wmscope wmtune wmusic workbone workman wsola wsoundprefs wsoundserver wxvlc xaos xaralx xaralx-examples xaralx-svg xawtv-plugins xawtv-tools xcftools xfig xfig-libs xfmedia xfonts-base xfonts-kappa20 xfonts-marumoji xfonts-nexus xfonts-terminus xfreecd xgmod xine-ui xli xloadimage xmcd xmedcon xmix xmltv-util xmms xmms2 xmms2-client-avahi xmms2-client-cli xmms2-core xmms2-et xmms2-plugin-alsa xmms2-plugin-curl xmms2-plugin-daap xmms2-plugin-flac xmms2-plugin-gnomevfs xmms2-plugin-ices xmms2-plugin-icymetaint xmms2-plugin-id3v2 xmms2-plugin-jack xmms2-plugin-mad xmms2-plugin-mms xmms2-plugin-modplug xmms2-plugin-musepack xmms2-plugin-oss xmms2-plugin-sid xmms2-plugin-smb xmms2-plugin-vorbis xmms2-plugin-wma xmms-adplug xmms-arts xmms-blursk xmms-bumpscope xmms-cdread xmms-coverviewer xmms-crossfade xmmsctrl xmms-dbmix xmms-defx xmms-festalon xmms-find xmms-finespectrum xmms-flac xmms-fmradio xmms-goodnight xmms-goom xmms-infinity xmms-infopipe xmms-iris xmms-jack xmms-jackasyn xmms-jess xmms-kde xmms-kjofol xmms-kjofol-skins xmms-ladspa xmms-lirc xmms-liveice xmms-mad xmms-midi xmms-modplug xmms-mpg123-ja xmms-msa xmms-musepack xmms-oggre xmms-openspc xmms-osd-plugin xmms-qbble xmms-rplay xmms-scrobbler xmms-shell xmms-sid xmms-singit xmms-skins xmms-speex xmms-status-plugin xmms-synaesthesia xmms-volnorm xmms-wma xmms-wmdiscotux xmms-xf86audio xmms-xmmplayer xmorph xmovie xmp xmp-alsa xmp-common xmp-esd xmp-x11 xmp-xmms xpaint xpdf xplanet xplanet-images xpm2wico xsane xsane-common xsidplay xzgv yafray yaret yiff-server youtube-dl zapping zgv zinf zinf-extras zinf-plugin-alsa zinf-plugin-arts zinf-plugin-esound zynaddsubfx"

And you wil have an ArtistX at 90%

Add to /etc/apt/sources.list the Debian Multimedia sources (www.debian-multimedia.org) and install the software you may need and you have an ArtistX at 99%

Hope it is clear, otherwise please ask your questions in our forum.

Marco Ghirlanda

ArtistX Info Team

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