On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Tony Baechler wrote: > Hi, > > OK, I definitely have Gnome installed. I looked at the pkg desc for gdm > and still don't know why I'm supposed to remove it. As soon as I tell Well you don't have too. Its just easier to log into a console than an x session from boot-up. startx won't ask you for anything like gdm. But ok whatever. > aptitude to remove it, I get a bunch of errors about broken packages. I > ran tasksel several times to install the desktop task like you said and > it just sat there at 0% even after waiting a long time. I have a fast > connection so I'm sure it wasn't downloading packages. I'm now positive > that I have all of Gnome installed. I ran startx and it still just > drops me on tty7 with no speech and no Orca. I'm sure I have gdm > removed even though it complained about gnome being broken. It still > wants to know what window manager to use and I don't think gnome itself Well since I don't use grml I don't know. Perhaps just apt-get remove gnome and start again? I don't know though. You can just try gdm if you like. And log in. Otherwise you can look and see what errors startx gives. Oh and for tasksel as root I guess you type: tasksel install desktop -- Daniel Dalton http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/ d.dalton at iinet.net.au
