> I followed the instructions in ximian's website but trying to apt get > install task-ximian-gnome tells me that apt couldn't find that package... > does anybody has had this problem and how to fix it?
IIRC you had to append to /etc/apt/sources.list the line deb http://red-carpet.ximian.com/debian stable main did you run "apt-get update" after that? did it complain about the new line? pietro.