after command line install

[Matt Price]

On Wed, 2007-03-01 at 15:59 -0500, J. David Boyd wrote:
> I've done a command line system install, then
> sudo apt-get install gnome-panel
> but I think I'm missing a few things, besides which, I don't know how to
> make gnome be the manager started when I do startx.
> 
> Does anyone know what to install to get the entire gnome shebang, as if
> I did a visual install?
> 

in case you didn't know this, you get the standard desktop with apt-get
install (or aptitude install) ubuntu-desktop. If you're just looking for
gnome without additional ubuntu modifications, I don't know whether
there's a suitable metapackage (but doubtless someone else does).

matt


> And what do I run to set gnome to be run with startx?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
-- 
Matt Price
History Dept
University of Toronto
matt.price at utoronto.ca
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