Re: Please help

["John A. Sullivan III" <jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com>]

On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 23:06 -0500, Ryan Collins wrote:
> Someone for the love of GOD, help me. 
> I've installedDebian 6.0(squeeze) on my dell inspiron 6000. All I have
> to show for it is a shell. I've looked all over and read countless
> entries on ways to load a gnome desktop, but nothing I try works for
> me like it has others. Im brand spanking new to Linux, but im
> beginning to at least understand how things need to be typed in order
> to make the magic happen, but it hasn't happened for me yet. I think I
> may have installed a server version, but there is a way around that
> right? What can I do to get a desktop environment installed through my
> command line?
> 
I don't use Gnome but rather Trinity
(http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net) so I do not know the package off
hand but I think something like apt-get install gnome-desktop will do
the trick for you.  Good luck - John