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debian and xfree86



I too recently installed Debian, and I noticed that after the installation, 
I needed to do the following to get X installed:

apt-get install x-windows-system

That should get X installed and you can go from there.

Regards,

jlk



>From: Abhishake Pathak <abhishake00 at yahoo.com>
>To: discuss at blu.org
>Subject: debian and xfree86
>Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 11:03:05 -0800 (PST)
>
>I recently installed debian on one of my computers.  I
>did not install xfree86 on it at all.  I then issued
>the following command 'apt-get install gnome gdm2'.  I
>got no errors.  But now when I do startx i get the
>following error:
>
>/usr/X11R6/lib/Xll/xinit/xserverrc: /usr/bin/X11/X: No
>such file or directory
>xinit: Connection refused (errno 111) unable to
>connect to X server
>xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error
>
>Would someone be able to point me in the right
>direction to get gnome to work?
>
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