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Hi, I am relatively new to Linux and have installed Linux on a touch screen that i am messing around with. It took me a while to get the touch ...
  1. 11-19-2008 #1
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    Cannot Get Gnome or KDE working (Newbie)

    Hi, I am relatively new to Linux and have installed Linux on a touch screen that i am messing around with. It took me a while to get the touch screen driver installed and configured and now I am having a lot of difficulty getting a desktop environment that I can use. Currently I have a terminal window and thats it. I have read that after typing the command: startx, i should then be able to 'startkde' but this only returns - bash: startkde: command not found. Please help, i'm going insane.



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    also, i am not too fussed as to which desktop environment i use
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    Assuming you have KDE and or Gnome installed. as root type init 5 This will start the default GUI. Note you may need to modify the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to accommodate the touch screen.
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    Hi gogalthorp, thanks for your reply.

    It appears that i have neither KDE or GNOME installed and I am now trying to install one of them but as I have no desktop environment am finding it difficult to do. I have SLEPOS installed and its just the essential files for the system to operate. Eveything including yum etc is not installed, is there a way to install a desktop environment with everything?

    I have firefox working on the system but when I run it I have to close it again before being able to use the terminal.

    Any suggestions?
    thanks.
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    Hi. What Linux distribution are you using (You talk about yum which is for Fedora/Red Hat, but you have posted in the openSUSE forum)? If using openSUSE 11, to install KDE, do
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    zypper install kde --type pattern
    If using openSUSE 10.3, do
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    zypper install --type=pattern kde
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    Hi daark.child, thanks for the rapid response, it is SLEPOS (Suse Linux Enterprise Point of Service) that i am using and i am pretty new to Linux hence the RH FC mixup, I am trying all sorts to get this working and maybe some of the methods i am applying are not correct - its a learning process I have to go through i guess.

    I tried the zypper install but am getting a bash: zypper: command not found response.
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    zypper is only available in openSSE 10.3 and openSUSE 11. If you are using SLES, then take a look at using "yast" or "rug". Unfortunately I don't use SLES, so can't give you specific details.
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    As root type

    Yast

    Navigate to Software-Software Management

    Select packages and KDE and or Gnome
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