Re: xfce

[JG <j2003gi@yahoo.es>]

Hi,

Kent West <westk@acu.edu> writes:

> Cleveland@mail.winnefox.org wrote:
> > Hi Kent,
> >
> >> Not knowing what your level of *nix knowledge is, it's hard to answer
> >> without being too terse or too simplistic.
> > I've been using Redhat for about a year now. I know it fairly well, but
> > I have to admit I'm a bit "gui dependent".
> >
> >> You should be able to install tasksel, and then run it, and select "X
> >> window system" to get a basic system up and running.
> > I didn't see X window system, but I did see desktop system. I went
> > ahead
> > and installed it. Unfortunately, it installed kde and gnome with it. I
> > didn't see an option to have it not do that. Anyway, after installing I
> > type "startx" and get this error message:
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xservrc: /usr/bin/X11/X: No such file or
> > directory
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xservrc: exec: /usr/bin/X11/X: cannot execute:
> > No such file or directory
> 
> I never have quite trusted tasksel . . . .
> 
> Okay, do this instead.
> 
> "apt-get install xbase-clients xserver-common xserver-xfree86
> xfonts-base xfonts-75dpi xfonts-100dpi xfonts-scalable" and that should
> get you a minimal X system going.
> 

A shorter line would be:

$ apt-get install x-window-system-core

You could also install:

$ apt-get install x-window-system

and you obtain xterm, xdm (a graphical login), and some other things in
addition. 

Hope this helps,

Jaume 

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