Re: How come GNOME is hard to install.

[Mike Bond <mike bond template com>]

Martin Kasper Petersen wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "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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