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Re: Wanting to use a gui with Debian.



On Wednesday 19 Jan 2005 15:59, Ibrahim Mubarak wrote:
> --- "Patrick J. Farhar" <pfarhar@wcrtc.net> wrote:
> > I have installed Debian and want to use a gui to install other packages
> > such as Squid.  My purpose is use the server for caching web pages.  I
> > am NEW to linux and do not know how to make Debian give me a gui
> > interface at boot.  Can someone please help?  Thanks in advance for any
> > help provided.
>
> You will need two things:
> 1. Desktop environment (KDE, GNOME, etc.)
> just do "apt-get kde" and/or "apt-get gnome"
>
> 2. a display manager so that the gui is started at boot (gdm, kdm, xdm,
> etc.) just do "apt-get gdm" or etc.
>

to bugfix,

apt-get install kde x-window-system

or apt-get install gnome x-window-system

Pete



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