On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 01:12:48AM -0400, Jameson C. Burt wrote: > > We in Linux heavily use the command-line. Hi Jameson, this is not entirely true today. Linux is moving towards the desktop, so when that fully happends, it will be expected to be fully gui like MacOS X. > So, I was dismayed when my new Debian etch version displayed a Gnome > interface WITHOUT ANY XTERM (or GNOME-TERMINAL or KONSOLE) > and not even any immediate panel options for these terminals. I was thinking as to why that is. Here is what I believe: Debian has a dependency system with different priorities. There are those things that are required to a program to function and there are those things that would be helpful in most cases. When installing Gnome, the metapackage gnome depends upon gnome-desktop-environment which depends upon gnome-core with depends upon gnome-terminal. So if you installed: gnome, gnome-dektop-environemt or gnome-core, it should install gnome-terminal. I also found out that: the metapackage x-window-system depends upon xorg which depends upon xterm|x-terminal-emulator so depending upon which was installed first, you should have either xterm and gnome-terminal or just gnome-terminal. Cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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