On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 11:20:25AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I recently upgraded to Potato and want to use gnome. I am using > the command line interface only. How do I install gnome? I
You do not have X Windows installed apparently? > read in the mail list archives that there are 3 choices: gnome, > debian, and xsession. But, I did not understand the differences. Not sure what you mean here, but it's nowhere near that simple. There are many many options. > > I also do not understand the difference between gdm vs xdm, gdm and xdm do the same thing (almost). Instead of the terminal giving you a login prompt, gdm or xdm does it graphically with X. > gnome-panel, gnome-session. When I apt-get gnome I get not found. gnome-panel is part of gnome. gnome-session is the program to run in place of the window manager in your .xsession file (stuff in that file is run when X starts). Try apt-get task-gnome-desktop. You might also consider the Helix gnome package. Simply add the line: # Helix GNOME deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main to /etc/apt/sources.list and then apt-get update ; apt-get task-helix-core task-helix-gnome (also optionally task-helix-gnome-dev) Note that I have potato and am running Helix gnome made for woody just fine. > > When I search on the forzen packages for gnome I do not get > the gdm, gnome-session, or gnome-panel packages. So, what are Hmm, where are you searching, the debian website, dselect...? > > my choices and how do I implement the choices? I downloaded > the gnome user guide but it has nothing about installing. Is > > there a HOWTO somewhere on installing gnome? > > Hope that helps. -- Pat Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain