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

[Adam Kessel]

Are you trying to mix distributions (i.e., stable and unstable)?  This
will screw you up on initial install.  Was your CD Woody or pre-Sarge?

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 01:30:03AM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> 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?
-- 
Adam Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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