X interface problems

[Jeremiah Foster]

On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 18:36 +1100, James Gray wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 18:11, Sizwe Petse wrote:
> > Hi;
> >
> > I have just finished installing Ubuntu 5.10, but I cannot switch to GUI,
> > its running in command prompt.
> >
> > What can I do?
> 
> Make sure you didn't accidentally do a "server" install - this mode of 
> installation doesn't include the X window system.
> 

This is the problem I had too when updating to Breezy (5.10). Following
James' advice will help. I did this;

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

Try that and see if it helps before you muck about with X windows.

jeremiah
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