On Thursday 17 June 2004 10:51 am, Alexander Ovalles Reinoso wrote: > Hi... I am new to Debian and would like to contribute with a little note. > I was having trouble starting KDE in woody... The error I got was something > like: > > > Cannot connect to X server... > $DISPLAY is not set > > Or something like that. > > After searching for a couple of days and after reinstalling Debian 3.0 like > fifteen times the confirmed solution was this: > > After installing (the last time) I ran dselect and installed all of the > security updates available in http://security.debian.org (I did not have to > write this myself because is configured in /etc/apt/sources.list) > > Of course, before I had to learn how to configure Debian Linux for network > access. > > After that I rebooted and that was it!!! > > Kde runs very well and I did not have to tweak any config file as I tried > without good results. > > Of course, I do not have a minimal clue about how it was fixed (Remember > that I am new to Linux) ,,, maybe some new library was installed.
If you're a newbie, I suggest you stick with synaptic. It's a much easier program for installing software than dselect.
