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Hello. I'm currently running Debian Sarge. I ran apt-get install gnome to install gnome and all of its dependencies, but when I run exec gnome I am unable to get ...
  1. 03-17-2007 #1
    agntsgotnosecret
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    Hello.

    I'm currently running Debian Sarge. I ran apt-get install gnome to install gnome and all of its dependencies, but when I run exec gnome I am unable to get the program to launch, for bash cannot locate it. It seems like the installation went fine because there are other gnome packages in the /usr/bin directory, thus I cannot figure out why bash is having a hard time locating the file. Forgive my ignorance, but when packages are installed, aren't they by default loaded into /usr/bin?

    Anybody's help would surely be appreciated.
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    startx gnome
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    Quote Originally Posted by agntsgotnosecret
    Hello.

    I ran apt-get install gnome to install gnome and all of its dependencies,
    Sarge doesn't install an X server by default (and neither gdm) .
    run:
    apt-get install x-window-system gdm gnome
    ...for GNOME and all its dependencies.
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