On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 10:04:10AM -0700, Janeque Peterson wrote: > > Needless to say I'm very new to this. I tried starting the x window > (although I don't have a very clear idea what it is exactly) with the > "startx' command, also I tried 'start kde'. I got a command not found to > both. Then, to make sure my x configuration is right, I did > 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86' (thanks, Chris). The response was > package 'xserver-xfree86' is not installed and no info is available. Where > do I go from here? Which distribution are you using? sarge (stable) or testing? In any case, make sure you do apt-get install x-window-system-core to fetch basic X server stuff. Then, ``apt-get install kde-core kdm'' will give you minimal kde components and kdm. Once you have configured X, which is a part of the above mentioned apt-get command, say `/etc/init.d/kdm start' to start the X server. HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036
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