A question about installing KDE and Xorg on Gentoo

silentray · 09-29-2008, 04:30 AM

Hi,

I have a question regarding with KDE installation in Gentoo.

I have successfully installed KDE using "emerge kdebase-meta". However, before I installed it, I forgot to install Xorg system. My question is:

1. Does KDE depend on Xorg?
2. Has "emerge kdebase-meta" installed xorg automatically for me?
3. If I install Xorg after KDE is installed, will the system work?

Many thanks,

Ray

mk27 · 09-29-2008, 09:10 AM

Here's the simple answer: If you have any GUI running at all (ie., a desktop with a background and windows) then you definately have xorg installed.

If you don't (ie, all you have is plain text on a black screen), there's probably nothing wrong with installing it after KDE.

KDE does depend on Xorg. All desktop environments, graphical things, etc. for linux do.