hey nori, hope your computer has thawed off a bit :) anyways, iirc this is provided by xserver-xfree86. the easy way to make sure you have everything installed that you need for x is to run tasksel and check the box for x windows. sean On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 06:01:17PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > first, thanks to all for your patience with my questions as i'm > bringing up my box. i really appreciate it. > > right now, i'm trying to get X set up. i've downloaded and installed > xdm, wmaker, and xbase-clients, which is all i seem to need to get a > GUI up and going. on the hard drive which i'm replacing with this > installation, to start window maker, i just typed 'startx' as root. > reading manpages, i see that's a frontend to xinit, which is also in > xbase-clients. right now, startx gives me the following error: > > /usr/X11RG/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: /usr/bin/X11/X: No such file or > directory > > and more along those lines (i.e., one error said many times over). > > it's true -- there's nothing called 'X' in /usr/bin/X11. I'm assuming > this is either a package i need to download, or something that gets > created in a configuration somewhere. 'apt-cache search | egrep ^X' > shows nothing, so I'm guessing it's not a package ... what do i need > to install or configure to make this work? > > thanks a lot, > > </nori> > > -- > .~. nori @ sccs.swarthmore.edu > /V\ http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~nori/jnl/ > // \\ @ maenad.net > /( )\ www.maenad.net > ^`~'^ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org >
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