debian and xfree86

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu]

On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 11:03:05AM -0800, Abhishake Pathak wrote:
> 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?

You have not configured/finished installing X. Do that first.

-dsr-

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