I am trying to install gnome on a fresh install of ubuntu(warty) i have done on my powerbook. When i sudo apt-get install gnome i recieve a message that says that package is reffered to by another name (or something similiar, i don't have a spair box to mark it down exactly) how can i get gnome install? From what i have been reading, it seems like it was supposed to be installed by default?
apt-get install gnome?
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I am trying to install gnome on a fresh install of ubuntu(warty) i have done on my powerbook. When i sudo apt-get install gnome i recieve a message that says that package is reffered to by another name (or something similiar, i don't have a spair box to mark it down exactly) how can i get gnome install? From what i have been reading, it seems like it was supposed to be installed by default? then what are you running if your not in gnome...?
then what are you running if your not in gnome...? try apt-get install gnome-bin or maybe
gnome-desktop-date
There many gome packages im assuming if you download one apt will then automatically download others.
also if your not in gnome do you have x running? if not you'll need the x files... your right gnome is meant to be there by default unless its just ur x that not running...?
X is installed, i'll gnome-bin. The release i installed was downloaded about 3 weeks ago, so maybe it didn't come with gnome.
oh yeah, and startx doesn't work, shouldn't that work if x is installed?
X is installed, i'll gnome-bin. The release i installed was downloaded about 3 weeks ago, so maybe it didn't come with gnome.
There should be a dependency package that installs all the Gnome stuff. I'm not sure which one it is but... gnome gnome-core gnome-desktop-environment
But actually it should already be there.
oh yeah, and startx doesn't work, shouldn't that work if x is installed?
Yes but your .xinitrc file might be need to have "exec gnome-session" in it, as the last line.
There should be a dependency package that installs all the Gnome stuff. I'm not sure which one it is but... gnome gnome-core gnome-desktop-environment
But actually it should already be there.
Yes but your .xinitrc file might be need to have "exec gnome-session" in it, as the last line. Hi, are you sure that you don't have gnome, 'cause warty comes with gnome 2.8.1 by default. And about X, ubuntu doesn't use the startx script. They have a custom script called gdm which runs X11, start GDM and then shows your WM / DE.
I searched around and found out i needed gdm, so i got that, then i was able to get gnome started, i had a bunch of error messeges so i said "what the hell, i'll just reinstall it" and bang, thangs worked fine. not sure why things didn't work the first time.