[Linux-disciples] Installing GNOME on a new Linux box

[Stephen R Laniel]

I'm setting up Linux on a new box, and apparently Debian CD
1 had a bad sector on it. So I only used that CD to
bootstrap, and installed the rest off the network. (I didn't
realize that the installer had a default list of apt
repositories, but apparently so. Bonus.) Once I'd gotten
most of the programs installed, I pulled my apt sources.list
over from a pre-existing machine.

The trouble is that I can't seem to get the GNOME stuff
working. For one thing, 'desktop environment' doesn't appear
as an option within tasksel. For another, if I try to
'apt-get install x-window-system xserver-xfree86 gnome', I
get a list of failed dependencies. If I add those
dependencies onto the list of packages to apt-get, I get an
even longer list of dependencies.

So ... hm. What's the best way to get X and GDM working?

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