I am a redhat user trying to migrate to debian and have had no luck with
getting X to work on any version of debian. I have posted this query to
linux.debian.user with no helpful replies, and now turn to you good
people for guidance :)
I installed woody (nov-09 ISO's) using the first 2 CD's of the set, and
for the package selection stage of the install I just used tasksel to
select 'desktop environment', and bypassed the dselect portion of the
installation. The system appears to have installed OK apart from a few
warnings about emacs19 packages not being available (which I don't think
would have affected X).
Anyway ... issuing a 'startx' or 'xinit' as either root or user at a
terminal prompt gives me an error message telling me to make sure that:
1. /usr/X11R6/bin is in my path (which it is)
2. 'X' is a valid executable
From other replies I got, I understand that this 'X' is supposed to be
a symlink to /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86. My freshly installed woody distro
doesn't have an executable that looks *anything like* 'XFree86'
anywhere! (I ran a find / -regex '.*XF.*' -perm +1 to verify this) ...
now, how is it possible that X hasn't been installed properly? I
clearly saw various gnome applets and applications being installed
during the installation process, and they must surely depend on X being
installed, so where's my executable? Also, to clarify, /usr/bin/X11 is
a symlink to /usr/X11R6/bin.
Can anyone offer any help with this? I couldn't get X started on potato
either, although I can't be sure the error message was exactly the
same. Has anyone had any similar experiences on woody or potato?
Cheers,
Glen