You guys are going to get tired of hearing from me. :] I was able to fix my problem with Synaptic. I installed the "fam" package and reinstalled gnome. I was then able to install Scribus.
However, I seem to be having a problem when I reboot my Debian box. It appears the kernel is loading, and I can watch the system load gdm on the screen prompts. It then presents me with the graphical login to my system. However, when I enter my user name and password, an error message is presented. I think it might be an error from the X- Window server, but I'm not sure. Here is the message: "Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not logged out yourself, this could mean that there is an installation problem or that you may be out of disk space. Try logging in with one of the failsafe sessions to see if you can fix the problem." I tried to login with the different failsafe methods, and even to access the terminal through gdm. None of the alternate methods were successful. This happended one time before. I simply reinstalled Debian. However, I don't learn much that way, and I'd hate to keep reinstalling my OS everytime this happens. (Although I'm getting pretty good at it.) I've got a 7GB hard drive, so I don't think I'm out of disk space, a possibility presented in the dialog. Just to be sure, I accessed the shell from a prompt during the boot process and removed KDE using apt-get. This freed up at least 40KB. I then removed and reinstalled gnome, thinking that this was the problem. Niether of these actions solved the problem. I'm really stuck here, and I'm not sure what to try next. What is causing this error? Is my swap partition not large enough? Is there a way to fix this problem, other than reinstalling Debian? I greatly appreciate any help. Thanks, Landon P.S. - I know all eventually get this Linux thing figured out, with enough patience......
