Re: trouble installing gnome

2020-06-07 Thread leonard morin
Thanks again for all your help. Once again, at this point, I don't remember how I did it, but I cleared the sources list and put in the Debian repository to download Gnome. It's taking me a lot of effort to wield the code since I'm new at this, and I don't want to cause irreparable damage. Be

Re: trouble installing gnome

2020-06-06 Thread Leonard Morin
Thanks to all you for your help! I followed your advice partially and was able to install Gnome. I don’t understand how it worked and I plan to try to figure that out tomorrow. Bedankt! Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 6, 2020, at 6:51 PM, Tom Dial wrote: > >  > >> On 6/6/20 09:14, leonard

Re: trouble installing gnome

2020-06-06 Thread Tom Dial
On 6/6/20 09:14, leonard morin wrote: > Hello, > > I hope all are well. I recently dual-installed debian from a live image > on a usb along with Windows on a new computer. My friend gave me some > guidance, but he is very busy so I don't want to bother him now. > > When I first installed, my

Re: trouble installing gnome

2020-06-06 Thread floris
Marc Shapiro schreef op 2020-06-06 20:30: On 6/6/20 8:58 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sat, 6 Jun 2020 11:14:13 -0400 leonard morin wrote: Hello leonard, Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify: Both instances of that should either be deleted or have an # inserted at the

Re: trouble installing gnome

2020-06-06 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 6 Jun 2020 11:30:05 -0700 Marc Shapiro wrote: Hello Marc, >/etc/apt/sources.list file, he is not using the CDs, either. Those >lines were also commented out.  Oops. You are indeed correct - the line wrapping(1) confused me. Thanks for pointing it out. (1) May not be the same as you

Re: trouble installing gnome

2020-06-06 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 6/6/20 8:58 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sat, 6 Jun 2020 11:14:13 -0400 leonard morin wrote: Hello leonard, Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify: Both instances of that should either be deleted or have an # inserted at the start of the line. IMO, the former is

Re: trouble installing gnome

2020-06-06 Thread floris
leonard morin schreef op 2020-06-06 17:14: Hello, I hope all are well. I recently dual-installed debian from a live image on a usb along with Windows on a new computer. My friend gave me some guidance, but he is very busy so I don't want to bother him now. When I first installed, my wifi

Re: trouble installing gnome

2020-06-06 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 6 Jun 2020 11:14:13 -0400 leonard morin wrote: Hello leonard, > Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify: Both instances of that should either be deleted or have an # inserted at the start of the line. IMO, the former is preferable. You may also wish to add an

trouble installing gnome

2020-06-06 Thread leonard morin
Hello, I hope all are well. I recently dual-installed debian from a live image on a usb along with Windows on a new computer. My friend gave me some guidance, but he is very busy so I don't want to bother him now. When I first installed, my wifi didn't work on Debian, so I couldn't download

Re: trouble installing GNOME

2001-02-13 Thread Jeroen Valcke
Even wierder is that it seems to work with enlightenment. Wel partially than. When I start enlightenment, there is no Gnome, however when I start a Gnome application I get all the fancy Gnome icons. -- Jeroen Valcke jeroen@valcke.com ICQ# 30116911 Home

Re: trouble installing GNOME

2001-02-13 Thread Jeroen Valcke
My progress so far with installing GNOME. Finally when I log in with gdm I get the gnome desktop, the icons and stuff, however when I log off, I get notified that I'm not running a gnome compatible windowmanager. Well, actually I'm running WindowMaker. I think this warning has something to do with

trouble installing GNOME

2001-02-11 Thread Jeroen Valcke
Hi, I'm trying to install GNOME on my system. I followed the instructions from the GNOME User FAQ. So I added deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main to my sources.list I ran apt-get update and after that did apt-get install task-helix-gnome even did an additional

Re: trouble installing GNOME

2001-02-11 Thread mike polniak
Jeroen Valcke wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install GNOME on my system. I followed the instructions from the GNOME User FAQ. So I added deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main to my sources.list I ran apt-get update and after that did apt-get install

Re: trouble installing GNOME

2001-02-11 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 02:00:20PM +0100, Jeroen Valcke wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install GNOME on my system. I followed the instructions from the GNOME User FAQ. So I added deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main to my sources.list I ran apt-get update and