Wanting to use a gui with Debian.

"Patrick J. Farhar" wrote:

I have installed Debian and want to use a gui to install other packages
such as Squid. My purpose is use the server for caching web pages. I
am NEW to linux and do not know how to make Debian give me a gui
interface at boot. Can someone please help? Thanks in advance for any
help provided.

You will need two things:
1. Desktop environment (KDE, GNOME, etc.)
just do "apt-get kde" and/or "apt-get gnome"

2. a display manager so that the gui is started at boot (gdm, kdm, xdm, etc.)
just do "apt-get gdm" or etc.

This should be enough to get you started. However, the Desktop Environment is based on X11 or the
X windows system. So (and I think that apt takes care of this) you'll need to also install
x-window-system package.

HTH,
ib

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On Wednesday 19 January 2005 15:34, Patrick J. Farhar wrote:

I have installed Debian and want to use a gui to install other packages
such as Squid. My purpose is use the server for caching web pages.

have a look at webmin-squid. you use webmin with your browser. ideal for
remote work on a server.

all the best peter




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Patrick J. Farhar escribió:

I have installed Debian and want to use a gui to install other
packages such as Squid. My purpose is use the server for caching web
pages. I am NEW to linux and do not know how to make Debian give me a
gui interface at boot. Can someone please help? Thanks in advance
for any help provided.

Sincerely,

Patrick J. Farhar
812-967-5536

See http://wiki.debian.net and look for DebianGnome

Regards.


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Patrick J. Farhar escribió:

I have installed Debian and want to use a gui to install other
packages such as Squid. My purpose is use the server for caching web
pages. I am NEW to linux and do not know how to make Debian give me
a gui interface at boot.

Try "apt-get install x-window-system kde kdm synaptic".

This should install a basic X Window System, with the KDE environment
(lots of bells and whistles, so hope you have plenty of horse power /
RAM), and the KDM graphical login manager which will start the gui at
boot. It'll also install Synaptic, which is a gui front-end to apt.

Kent


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On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 11:36 -0600, Kent West wrote:

Patrick J. Farhar escribió:

>
>> I have installed Debian and want to use a gui to install other
>> packages such as Squid. My purpose is use the server for caching web
>> pages. I am NEW to linux and do not know how to make Debian give me
>> a gui interface at boot.
>

Try "apt-get install x-window-system kde kdm synaptic".

This should install a basic X Window System, with the KDE environment
(lots of bells and whistles, so hope you have plenty of horse power /
RAM), and the KDM graphical login manager which will start the gui at
boot. It'll also install Synaptic, which is a gui front-end to apt.

Remember, this is going to be a server.

# apt-get install x-window-system synaptic icewm gdm

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