Re: new to debian

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Hello

Roberto Sanchez (<rcsanchez97@yahoo.es>) wrote:

> Scott Hansen wrote:
>> Greetings,
>> 
>> I downloaded iso disks of Debian and did an install.  I am new to
>> Debian, and Linux as a whole.  The question I have is thatI do not
>> know
>> how to get a gui login or to activate a gui like kde.

> Welcome to the wonderful world of Debian.  To get a graphical login
> prompt, execute an 'apt-get gdm' while logged in as root.  That
> will provide you with a display manager that handles authentication
> and selection of your desktop environment.  I am not why that is not
> installed by default when you choose the desktop environment task,
> but that is how to fix that.

Note that KDE also has an login manager called kdm which you maybe want
to install instead of gdm if you use KDE instead of Gnome.

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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