Doh! :-) No, it wasnt.... However, for using Gnome it is obviously necessary, so I wonder why there is no dependency in one of the packages or at least in the meta packages "gnome". Well but this is not an issue of the amd64-version, rather a general issue.
Thank you for the hint, anyway. Regards, Christian Am Do, den 12.08.2004 schrieb Theodore Kisner um 23:24: > so package xserver-xfree86 is installed? > > -Ted > > On Thursday 12 August 2004 16:40, Christian Wolf wrote: > > Hello, > > > > after having apt-get installed gnome after a netinstall, I wanted to > > start x (startx). However, X does not start but shows me the following > > message: > > > > "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: line 2: /usr/bin/X11/X file not > > found > > > > xinit: unable to connect to xserver" > > > > Any ideas? I assume that the gnome metapackage is linked to XFree, > > because it was downloaded during the installation of gnome. > > > > Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I am coming from gentoo, here the > > packages are linked against each other (well, Xorg) and all the > > necessary init-scripts are installed. Do I need to do that manually? > > > > Thank you a lot in advance for your patience :-) > > > > Regards, > > > > Christian >
