<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Stephen Ryan wrote: <blockquote cite="mid351278b8050411172354b2b6ad@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Apr 11, 2005 8:17 PM, Alfred Vahau <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:alfredv@upng.ac.pg"><alfredv@upng.ac.pg></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi, I just logged into the console and I need to get to the desktop. Ctrl+Alt+F7 doesn't work so I gatgher the desktop package is not installed and I need to install it. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Try just Alt+F7; you only need Ctrl+Alt+F? when you're in X. </pre> </blockquote> Alt+F7 combination does not work. I need to install the necessary desktop packages and then issue the Alt+F7 which might get me to the desktop. sudo apt-get install (desktop package name) My problem, which the package name to be issued. apt-cache search also has the same problem. Isn't there a wild card or regular expression to be used to seek out the names of packages in the console? Alfred </body> </html>