On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 12:41, Christian Wolf wrote: > 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.
Not every machine that serves x sessions serves them locally. Gnome runs just fine remotely - all it needs is gtk(etc) and xlibs. (Although having gdm/kdm/xlibs/something suggest/recommend the x server might be a pretty useful change.) > 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 > > -- Disconnect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
