Re: How Do I Start the Debian GUI

[Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>]

#include <hallo.h>
* Kent West [Sun, May 07 2006, 08:24:17AM]:
> cheng@uni wrote:
> > Hi ... i am newbie too...
> >
> > I have recently installed the GUI (I think)... but there seems to be
> > some problem with starting the GUI
> >
> > startx, startkde doesnt seem to work
> >
> > during installation of the GUI, these messages came out
> > dpkg 'ldconfig' not found on PATH
> > dpkg 'start-stop-daemon' not found on PATH
> > dpkg 'install-info' not found on PATH
> > dpkg 'update-rc.d' not found on PATH
> >   
> This indicates to me some serious brokenness. I suspect your
> installation of Debian is not complete somehow.

Serious? He is more likely not root or messed up his $PATH.

Regards,
Eduard.