On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Thibaut Paumard wrote:
> Le jeudi 22 juin 2006 ? 20:03 +0800, Dr Bean a ?crit :
> > I don't think I have X Windows installed. How do I now install
> > it?
> [...]
> > I have now a perfectly good console-based linux system, but exec
> > startx doesn't give me X Windows.
This is a late answer. Sorry.
I think there was some user error ;-) involved. Now I reinstalled
sarge, and I have X. Everything is OK. I think I may have
confused sid and sarge. They're easy to confuse.
> But you do have startx? Do you get a "command not found" error, or a
> hole bunch of lines?
I think I got a number of lines.
> If it's the latter, then X is there but not
> configured properly. Please post the error message you get when issuing
> startx.
The error was ... I've forgotten.
> Also give some details about your system (video hardware).
Where would I get that. dmesg says just:
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
> > I used apt-get to install
> > gnome, which may explain a few X11 libs I have and some X docs in
> > /usr/share. [...]
> If you installed gnome, then I'd say it's impossible you didn't install
> X as well.
Floria Kulzer said that this is not so, because someone might be
running X from another machine, and so not want it on the X
client, the machine which has gnome.
The lesson I learned from this experience was,
1. debian users are very helpful.
2. debian is different than fedora
3. be careful about what you are doing
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