Debian xfce

prolly a dumb question. Installed the latest stable netinst-debian and chose just the basesystem. Arriving at the terminal i:

# su
# aptitude update
# aptitude install xfce4

It installed all and well. But how do I start it :oops:

I might be wrong but I think you need to install either gdm or kdm so you have a display manager.

make sure you install xorg to.

just type> startx

kerry_s said: make sure you install xorg to.

just type> startx

# X: Cannot stat etc/X11/X (No such file or directory, aborting
# xinit:  Connection refused (errno 111):  unable to connect to X server
# xinit:  No such process (errono 3):   Server error

It actually says "stat" and not start, which I think it means, but that's the output I get when I type in ``` startx

that's because you did not install xorg.

sudo apt-get install xorg

Thank you very much :) So to install xfce on a debian:

# su
# aptitude update
# aptitude install xfce
# aptitude install gdm 
# aptitude install xorg
# startx

for future reference

NaF said: Thank you very much :)

So to install xfce on a debian:

# su
# aptitude update
# aptitude install xfce
# aptitude install gdm 
# aptitude install xorg
# startx

for future reference

you can just put it in 1 line:

su
apt-get install xorg gdm xfce4
exit
startx

you'll want to exit root(su) before you startx