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[Newbie Warning] After installing a package or few on my mostly Etch and slightly Sid Debian install, I somehow managed to kill Gnome and KDE. Using aptitude I then reinstalled ...
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    How many dependencies can Gnome have?

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    After installing a package or few on my mostly Etch and slightly Sid Debian install, I somehow managed to kill Gnome and KDE.

    Using aptitude I then reinstalled KDE with the KDE Desktop task and it went quick and now works fine.

    I then tried to do likewise with Gnome and the Gnome Desktop task, but after probably well over half an hour and about 200K open dependencies and half as many closed dependencies (I wouldn't have thought there would be that many packages in the whole of debian) it was still trying to resolved dependencies for the installation.

    So with system performing slowing to a snails pace, I got frustrated and cancelled it.

    What I want to know is if this is normal and will eventually resolve (and so I will try again and stick it out) or if something greater is fubarred, and if so what could it be?
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    Hi and Welcome !

    Which command are you executing to install Gnome Desktop?
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    Just using aptitude. And the "Gnome Desktop" item under "Tasks".
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    And just as an aside: is there any aptitude style app for X?
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    Quote Originally Posted by surt
    Just using aptitude. And the "Gnome Desktop" item under "Tasks".
    Execute this
    Code:
    aptitude install gnome-core
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    And just as an aside: is there any aptitude style app for X?
    You can use Synaptic. Its GUI of apt-get and makes install/remove a lot easier.
    Code:
    apt-get install synaptic
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    Yeah cool that worked nice and easy without any silly endless dependency search.

    And as it turns out I've already got synaptic on my system.

    Thanks for your help!
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