On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 14:18 -0600, Bryan Shelton wrote: > I would, however, like to install a basic > X desktop, gnome or XFCE. The meta-packages "gnome-core" and "xfce4" might be what you want. You can look up information about them in Synaptic, or in a terminal do: aptitude show gnome-core xfce4