Re: new to debian
At Wed, 22 Oct 2003 22:33:39 -0700,
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. Could you help me
> with this. As soon as I can get a gui up and test drive Debian I will
> gladly send money to support it. Also, only disk 1 was needed for the
> install even though I selected the desktop environments, games,
> scientific, and 3 of the four developer packages. Did I screw up the
> install?
>
> Thank you for your time,
>
> Scott Hansen
>
I have a quick question, have you got the graphical side of things
working? ie. after you login in a terminal, does startx work?
If not then you need that up and running first and then the above
answers will solve your problem with the graphical login.
An aside: There is also another app for package management that works
very like apt-get, but deals with recommended and suggested packages.
It is called aptitude, you use it in a similar way as apt-get,
ie. aptitude install gdm. I have recently discovered it, and it is
very nice to work with, even nicer (which is saying a lot) than
apt-get
Hth, and good luck, I am reluctantly forced to work on windows at
work, and am always happy to return to sanity when I get onto my own
debian box at home.:-D
rohan
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