Re: Wanting to use a gui with Debian.
--- Peter Nuttall <p.s.nuttall@dur.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 Jan 2005 15:59, 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.
> >
>
> to bugfix,
>
> apt-get install kde x-window-system
>
> or apt-get install gnome x-window-system
Yea, thx. I am used to Synaptic (J.F.Gratton talked about it) and it simplified a lot of things.
Sorry for being a little distracted, hehe.
ib
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