On Friday 04 March 2011 04:06:50 Ryan Collins wrote: > Someone for the love of GOD, help me. > I've installedDebian 6.0(squeeze) on my dell inspiron 6000. All I have to > show for it is a shell. I've looked all over and read countless entries on > ways to load a gnome desktop, but nothing I try works for me like it has > others. Im brand spanking new to Linux, but im beginning to at least > understand how things need to be typed in order to make the magic happen, > but it hasn't happened for me yet. I think I may have installed a server > version, but there is a way around that right? What can I do to get a > desktop environment installed through my command line?
I have just (for the first time in years) installed a default install of Squeeze. It starts up in the command line. No sign of X. This deos not cause me a problem, since I was doing it just to see what happened. But I can see that it would cause problems to newbies. There is obviously a bug. Choosing another desktop works. Start the installation again, choose advanced -> other desktops -> then take your pick. LXDE certainly installs correctly. I haven't tried the other two. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201103041033.45219.lisi.re...@gmail.com
