On Thu, 18 May 2006 09:56:53 -0500
"Lukasz Szybalski" <szybalski@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/18/06, Jon Dowland <lists@alcopop.org> wrote:
> > At 1147906776 past the epoch, Lukasz Szybalski wrote:
> > > 2. I would like to skip this process and from installation
> > > menu when selecting [desktop] I would like to choose a kde
> > > as a default windowing system. Who should i contact to
> > > make this change happen?
> >
> > The desktop task offered to you in the debian-installer
> > process installs both GNOME and KDE, but GNOME is chosen as
> > the default environment.
> >
> > If you do not select the desktop task, but instead go for
> > manual package selection, you can install the kde package
> > independently.
> >
> > Note that there might be other components pulled in by the
> > desktop task that are not depended on by the kde package
> > (e.g. xserver-xfree86).
> >
>
> I deselected the desktop. Installed the rest. Then apt-get install
> kde. When all was done. startx gave an error.
> Will manual selection of packages at install time produce same results
> as apt-get install kde?
>
> If so that will give me an error therefore it might or might not be a
> use to me. Are there any other options?
>
> lukasz
Do you have "x-window-system-core installed?
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