Re: How come GNOME is hard to install.

[Martin Kasper Petersen <mkp socsci auc dk>]

>>>>> "Yoni" == Yoni Elhanani <biggo@netvision.net.il> writes:

Yoni> i cannot even run gdm when i try to as root: "gdm_config_parse:
Yoni> Can't find the gdm user (gdm). Aborting!"  I do believe that
Yoni> this is just misconfiguration or non-configuration problem, but
Yoni> newbies would be baffled by such a thing. 

gdm requires a dedicated user and group id to work properly.

Like most daemons gdm requires the sysadmin/distribution integrator to
read the docs and do some local customization.

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