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Re: startx , the command not found



On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 01:20:42AM +0700, Khanh Cao Van wrote:
> ya , I'm just come back to my debian , go to / and tried find | grep
> startx but not found any thing . I came to /usr/bin and looking for
> startx but it not there . Thank for your opinion :) . Any sugest ?

Mm ... find |grep startx is a highly inefficient way of
doing what you want to do. That lists every single file on
your hard disk and finds any matching startx. At the very
least, you'd want to just use 'locate startx'. But really
you should just do

ls /usr/bin/startx

That will be the fastest way to do what you want.

You probably don't have X installed. I'm not totally
comfortable with how all the X client and server packages
fit together, but you can use 'dlocate startx' to see that
the package xbase-clients contains 'startx'. So do

sudo apt-get install xbase-clients

There's probably an easy way to add in all the packages that
you need to get a GNOME or KDE desktop running. In fact, I'd
bet that there's one single package you can install which
depends on all the packages you need, hence installs
everything properly. Can someone else on this list point the
gentleman to the proper package(s)?

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