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
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