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Re: gdm fails after 3.1r2 desktop install



On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 23:43:19 -0500
Phil Hammond <phil@hammondo.org> wrote:

> (My first attempt to install any Linux system so bear with me please!)
> 
> I did what appeared to be a clean installation of 3.1r2, but on first 
> startup gdm says:
> 
> GDM: Xserver not found: /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -audit 0 -auth 
> /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7
> Error: Command could not be executed!
> Please install the X server or edit /etc/gem/gem.conf to point to the 
> right place.
> 
> and then
> 
> I will disable this X server for now.
> Restart GDM when it is configured correctly.
> 
> I seem not to be the only person to have this problem. The suggestion 
> in a few other places has been to install x-window-system and 
> x-server-common and (perhaps) x-window-system-core. But apt won't let 
> me install x-window-system because it depends on a virtual (or dummy) 
> package xprt-xprintorg.
> 
> Is there a way to force an installation of x-window-system even 
> without xprt-xprintorg? Or is that even going in the right direction?
> 
> Thanks in advance-
> PH

x-window-system-core will be enough to get you going. According to

    http://packages.debian.org/stable/x11/x-window-system-core

it does not depend on xprt-xprintorg.

-- 

Liam



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