Localizing BeaFanatIX

After booting into your newly installed BeaFanatIX system, you'll be greeted by an invitation to localize the system; basically, this means that you should care to harmonize language settings troughout the system - and the script in question can do this for you.

Before you execute the script, you should set up your network connection; please refer to the section about setting up the network connection first if you didn't already do so.

After you made sure there's a working network connection, just click "OK" and let the script do its work

The script will pause requiring you to hit OK again.

As the script runs it will display the two different progress bars shown below  - this is normal! But be patient, especially the configuration of the locales can take quite a while! The script will inform you about its progress and success.

In addition to installing the localization files, the script will also install and prepare the Synaptic package manager to give you a graphical front end for package handling and general system maintenance.

Updating the system

Even though BeaFanatIX is actively maintained and developed, there may already be system upgrades for you to install, even if you've only just installed the system itself. This is due to the fact that you've used a static ISO image and Linux and its applications are always rapidly developing.  As a result, it is not feasible to make a new version of BeaFanatIX to account for every development advance in Linux AND all the core applications.

This is especially true since it is very easy to ensure your BeaFanatIX is up to date.

Click Applications : Accessories : Terminal

Type:

sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

If there are newer versions of packages installed in BeaFanatIX, apt-get will find any updates, any dependencies required for the updates, and can install them for you.  Answer "Y" to install the updates found by apt-get.

When updates are completed, simply type "exit" to close the terminal window.