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**daniejohndanie** · 08-06-2005

After my debian installation I was not able to see the GUI interface. I stand in a command prompt line. Could anyone help me.

**leverknight1** · 08-06-2005

login and type

Code:

startx

that should start your default gui.

**daniejohndanie** · 08-06-2005

I tried startx but that was also not working.

**leverknight1** · 08-06-2005

try

Code:

gdm

at command promt

**leverknight1** · 08-06-2005

also you might try

Code:

cat .Xclients-default

**St. Joe** · 08-06-2005

Login as root and reconfigure X manually.
Your settngs are probably not correct.

# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

**ToastedToad** · 08-06-2005

Have you installed x-window-system? What have you done? Net-Install? Full-CD-Install?

**bryansmith** · 08-06-2005

Sounds like an X server is not installed. At the command line, do the following:

Code:

su
&#91;Enter root password&#93;
apt-get update
apt-get install x-window-system

Then try startx. If this works, you will want to install a desktop environment. The choice of DE is up to you.

Bryan

**junkman4547** · 08-07-2005

The common problem of boot into command line is that users fail to install desktop environment, although you might think you did, I made that mistake myself. When asked about DE, you must highlight and press <space> to select it, if you just hit <enter>, you did not select the highlighted option.

**Sean_Foster** · 08-09-2005

junkman4547 - I did the same thing. The funny thing is that now that I have KDE and Gnome up, I think I'd like to go back to just using the command line. KDE and Gnome are great, but things are much faster for me, using the command line. I usually revert to opening a console, maximizing it, and going from there.

daniejohndanie - From the command line, type aptitude and hit <enter>. You can then see which packages you've installed and which ones you haven't. To get the GUI "working", you'll need Xfree86 and either KDE or Gnome (or both if you wish). Use your arrow keys to select a package to install and press +. Choose as many as you like and then press g and then g again.

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