Re: troubles setting up gnome...

[Jeff "W." <jeff dark-techno org>]

On 02 Feb 2001 14:03:36 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Jeff W.">
> 
> > a) what files I need/am missing
> > b) maybe I'm not missing anything and am just configuring things
> > wrong/running the wrong program.
> 
> Why are you doing all this work yourself? That's what apt-get is for.
> 
> Add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
> 
>   deb http://spidermonkey.ximian.com/distributions/debian unstable main
> 
> Then type:
> 
> apt-get update
> apt-get install task-helix-gnome
> 
> 
> Then you're done. Remember, there's a *lot* of packages in task-helix-gnome,
> so you may want to install task-helix-core. Also, Peter may have updated
> these to be task-ximian-* by now, not sure.


I already did that apt-get install business, and that put me in my
current state.  It downloaded about 160MB of files (well, 160 after
unpacking).  


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