Re: starting x
On Saturday 18 December 2004 18:14, Sam Watkins wrote:
> startx is not part of the X server, it is in the package x-base-clients.
>
> You should:
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> apt-get install x-window-system-core
>
> or probably:
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> apt-get install x-window-system
>
>
> you can look at what each of these "meta packages" depends on with:
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> apt-cache show x-window-system-core
>
> you can see reverse dependencies with
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> apt-cache rdepends xterm
>
> you can find out what package contains a certain file with "apt-file":
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> apt-get install apt-file
> apt-file search startx
> apt-cache rdepends x-base-clients
>
> etc.
>
>
> good luck!
Dear Sam:
Thank you very much for the tip. I did do a 'apt-get install
x-window-system', and a number of good things happened. I can now do a startx
and get twm. I can also right-click and get a tclsh8.4.
Thats the good news. Unfortunately, being unfamiliar with apt-get yet, I dont
know how to get say kde or gnome up. I am currently trying:
apt-get install kde kdevelop kdelibs kdebase
after a search of archives and it seems to be working. After that, I wonder
what the incantation is to start kde and perhaps more importantly, where I
can go to figure out a few steps after that, other then googling.
Charles
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