Re: Wanting to use a gui with Debian.
To add on Patrick's comment, once you get your graphical interface, you
could install Synaptic (apt-get install synaptic), a nice graphical tool
to install other packages. I've used Synaptic only once, but it looked
pretty good.
Regards,
Jeff
On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 07:59 -0800, Ibrahim Mubarak wrote:
> --- "Patrick J. Farhar" <pfarhar@wcrtc.net> wrote:
>
> > I have installed Debian and want to use a gui to install other packages
> > such as Squid. My purpose is use the server for caching web pages. I
> > am NEW to linux and do not know how to make Debian give me a gui
> > interface at boot. Can someone please help? Thanks in advance for any
> > help provided.
>
> You will need two things:
> 1. Desktop environment (KDE, GNOME, etc.)
> just do "apt-get kde" and/or "apt-get gnome"
>
> 2. a display manager so that the gui is started at boot (gdm, kdm, xdm, etc.)
> just do "apt-get gdm" or etc.
>
> This should be enough to get you started. However, the Desktop Environment is based on X11 or the
> X windows system. So (and I think that apt takes care of this) you'll need to also install
> x-window-system package.
>
> HTH,
> ib
>
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