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Hi everyone, this is rather pathetic, but I'm pulling my hair out so I'd appreciate any advice for the sake of my follicles if nothing else.
I've just installed Debian/Sarge from 2 downloaded CD images - I seem to have installed a basic system and can log-on to a console session, but have no idea how to start a GUI. There's nothing like X11 in my /lib, and apart from x11config and startx I can remember nothing of the time when I used Debian half a decade ago.
I don't even know how to select an option in the Debian "apt" screen - I see a red cursor block which I can move up or down, but I don't even know how to select an option - I wanted to choose the desktop workstation one, but all I could do was press <enter> when it was highlighted by the red cursor and I'm not too sure that it worked.
I've just installed Debian/Sarge from 2 downloaded CD images - I seem to have installed a basic system and can log-on to a console session, but have no idea how to start a GUI. There's nothing like X11 in my /lib, and apart from x11config and startx I can remember nothing of the time when I used Debian half a decade ago.
It looksyou don't have X Window installed. Try to use 'aptitude'. It's quite easy to use frontend to apt-get. If you don't have it installed, install it using
apt-get install aptitude
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I don't even know how to select an option in the Debian "apt" screen - I see a red cursor block which I can move up or down, but I don't even know how to select an option - I wanted to choose the desktop workstation one, but all I could do was press <enter> when it was highlighted by the red cursor and I'm not too sure that it worked.
It's tricky. You select using space. Enter finishes current menu/submenu. Just for future reference.
you probably need to install xserver-xorg (via apt)
su--paswword apt-get install xserver-xorg
it will ask to install a bunch of files as dependancies, just hit yes and go.When it's done type startx and you should get a desktop (hopefully)
Sarge will still install xfree86 by default. Xorg is in unstable and I think testing, but stable stuck with xfree86 for now. That is just a minor nitpick, what was posted above is still true. I suggest you follow this guide from our debian forum, telling specific things to do to setup a desktop stlye debian box:
I am new to linux(using Suse 9.3) and have a program (grahics) graph.class, when I run it I get this error
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.InternalError: Can't connect to X11 window server using ':0.0' as the value of the DISPLAY variable.
at sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment.initDisplay(Native Method)
at sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment.<clinit>(X11GraphicsEnvironment.java:134)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:141)
at java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment(GraphicsEnvironment.java:62)
at java.awt.Window.init(Window.java:231)
at java.awt.Window.<init>(Window.java:275)
at java.awt.Frame.<init>(Frame.java:401)
at javax.swing.JFrame.<init>(JFrame.java:198)
at JPanels.<init>(JPanels.java:15)
at JPanels.main(JPanels.java:11)
If I run it on the linux machine, it runs fine, but when I ssh into the box and try to run it I get this error. Y is this so an any solution.
Please start a new thread as this does not have any relation to the original question. By posting a new question in a thread, people might get confused.
Last edited by Wim Sturkenboom; 06-13-2006 at 02:13 AM.
Many thanks to all who replied to my plea - in the end it was sufficient to select "Desktop Environment" in base-config (thank you farslayer) and let Debian do the rest, but unless Mara had told me to use space to select I would still be pulling my hair out now.
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