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

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 07:50:55AM -0400, Adam Kessel wrote:
> 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?

I'm pretty sure my CD was Woody. The install went quite far
pulling stuff off the network, then said, "Have fun!" and
dropped me off at the command line. So I'm curious, for one
thing, why the install didn't handle X and GNOME on its own
-- why I had to go through and install it manually.

My sources.list contains both stable and unstable. If I did
'apt-get install gnome' (for instance), would it default to
stable or unstable? I guess I just assumed it would default
to stable, hence no installation problems.

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