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misbehavinmisbehavin Registered User regular
edited June 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
I want a GUI on this machine... I know how to do everything from the command line, but staring at a black screen and white text half the day is annoying as hell...

So I went to add the Gnome package using the following command:

sudo aptitude install x-window-system-core gnome-core

Everything went fine. Once done, I did:

/etc/init.d/gdm start

And then... Nothing...

I'm baffled... Any ideas?

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  • embrikembrik Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Try startx at the shell prompt. I can't remember if that's for something else, but that used to work for this sort of thing.

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  • saggiosaggio Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Did you try a simple startx?

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  • wunderbarwunderbar What Have I Done? Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    what you were wanting to install was:

    sudo apt-get-install ubuntu-desktop

    That will install everything you need to get the desktop up and running(and some stuff you don't need, but you can remove that from the gui later)

    embrik: startx will, well, start x up if it's installed, yes.

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  • embrikembrik Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Gotcha. I'm used to distros having that stuff there already.

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    "Damn you and your Daily Doubles, you brigand!"

    I don't believe it - I'm on my THIRD PS3, and my FIRST XBOX360. What the heck?
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