Re: startx , the command not found

[John Miller <ads@jorymil.com>]

Try installing x-window-system, xserver-xfree86, and xserver-common, if
they're not already installed.  I'm surprised, though, that apt-getting
GNOME didn't bring X along for the ride.  Good luck!

John

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 ?
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>On 6/30/05, Stephen R Laniel <steve@laniels.org> wrote:
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>>On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 12:57:12AM +0700, Khanh Cao Van wrote:
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>>>I've install debian 3.1 and then use apt to install gnome and
>>>xserverfreex86 . Everything seem to be ok since the system guide me to
>>>config manything such as graphic card , resolusion etc . But when I
>>>type startx , nothing happend except the error the command not found .
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>>If I had to guess offhand, I'd bet that startx isn't in your
>>PATH. Which would be odd, given that startx is in /usr/bin.
>>So try this:
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>>ls -la /usr/bin/startx
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>>at the command line and see what you get.
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>>If nothing is listed there, then ... um ... that's a
>>problem. We'll cross that bridge etc.
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