On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 06:27:35PM -1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Anybody know the best directory to open the gui window manager > xfce from a tar.gz file.
You mean install from source? Untar it and read the INSTALL file. Or bail on the source package install and use a _supported_ package. > This Debian Linux version is "sarge". I am a FreeBSD person > and the file structure in "sarge" is not easy to figure out. It is all *nix under the hood. I think you are referring to the SysV layout of /etc. Order Nemeth's _Linux Aministration Handbook_ and google for Linux's Filesystem Hierarchy Standard while you wait for it to ship. > Like I don't want a gui boot up I want to start with a command > line. Neither do I. `rm /etc/rc?.d/S???dm` > So I have finally, after reading the top complaints on > the Debian list, figured out how to start a gui under level 3 > when you need to have it. I want to have a simple gui XFCE3, > not KDE and only XFCE4 is available on the apt-get. Like in your prior question about XFCE3 on FreeBSD, skip it and install XFCE4; this time via apt. -Vince