[gnome] How to get Gnome desktop? [Archive]

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zaurus

August 5th, 2009, 06:28 AM

Hello

I just installed Ubuntu 9.04 from minicd. First boot eas in command line prompt. I installed gnome via apt-get install. I run startx and get a GUI but it is not Gnome. How can get Gnome?

KR

Copernicus1234

August 5th, 2009, 06:41 AM

Sorry, I dont have any experience with the minicd. Hopefully someone else has.

Good luck!

AndyCee

August 5th, 2009, 06:42 AM

What about

sudo apt-get install gnome-desktop
?

pmla

August 5th, 2009, 08:20 AM

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
then run startx

braete

August 5th, 2009, 10:15 AM

read this (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1155961).
it should help you

or you can do as pmla suggested. that will give you a "full" ubuntu installation

pmlxuser

August 5th, 2009, 10:22 AM

+1 pmla

you then can do

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm

to configure to have the GUI start aoutomatically

zaurus

August 6th, 2009, 03:05 AM

Thanks everybody!
Your advices worked perfectly. Still need to figure out as how to fix the standard ubuntu behavior for users accounts. My standard user cannot performs some sudo tasks. I need to use the root account for that. I created root account during install process and that was my mistake.