To install Gnome, just run `emerge gnome`. (This is mentioned in the Gentoo Handbook) On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 13:20, Vaughn Treude wrote: > Well, I followed all the instruction and got gnome installed and booting. > (Woo hoo!) I also got X installed and working. But I wanted a real desktop > manager. I went to CD 2 and untarred every package that started with > "gnome." Then I changed the last line of the /etc/rc.conf file to make the X > session a Gnome sesssion. It tries to start, gets the "X" cursors and fails > without any error messages, not to the screen or the the log file. There was > formerly a failure from the "Hostname" command - the host name is set but the > NIC is not yet configured - so I added the hostname to the "hosts" file, and > that went away. I think that's a red herring, though, or X wouldn't work at > all. Do any of you gentoo gurus out there know if there are any other > necessary steps (that I may have missed) to getting gnome to work? > > Thanks, > Vaughn > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Bryce C CoBryce Communications