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Inviato da torabbey il Sab, 07/30/2011 - 15:17

How do I Get A GUI?

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Sab, 07/30/2011 - 15:17
torabbey
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I have just installed Trisquel 4.5.

I cannot find any documentation about how to get a GUI or even the syntax of commands.

Can you advise on how to get a GUI? There is only a cursor at the command line now. This surprises me.

I used a net install because by doing so I would get an up-to-date system but the "date" in up-to-date is 1994 and the "up-to" a blinking cursor :-)

The documentation available at the Trisquel site describes how to do things in a graphical user interface so not applicable. I am logging on here by using another operating system as I can't get online with Trisquel - I guess I have to configure that on the command line too somehow.

Gracias, kind users.

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Sab, 07/30/2011 - 15:28
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sudo apt-get install trisquel-gnome-base

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Sab, 07/30/2011 - 16:15
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> I have just installed Trisquel 4.5.
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> I cannot find any documentation about how to get a GUI or even the
> syntax of commands.
>
> Can you advise on how to get a GUI? There is only a cursor at the
> command line now. This surprises me.

I'm guessing you used the command line installer (netinstall) and
didn't check that you wanted the Trisquel desktop in the last step.

You can run "sudo tasksel" to bring up that step at any time.

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Dom, 07/31/2011 - 21:53
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Thank you both.

I shall try those and report back.

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Dom, 07/31/2011 - 22:04
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PS I ticked "install desktop" in the installation process so this may be a bug in Trisquel-netinst_4.5.1_amd64.iso

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Mar, 08/02/2011 - 18:16
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Hello Adherry & Rubén

When I booted Trisquel to use the commands suggested here, Grub displayed Trisquel 4.5 in my boot menu but was unable to load it. The warnings given were "error: no such device" and "error: you need to load the kernel first".

So rather than investigate this (and as I also had the GUI problem to deal with), I put it down to one of those glitches that sometimes happen, and I downloaded the full dvd version of Trisquel4.5.1-amd64 instead. After an easy installation, I found that everything worked fine till I downloaded the 46 updates that were ready for my new installation. One of these broke Firefox and I couldn't use the browser menus to access preferences or bookmarks. I had a frozen Firefox toolbar and re-installing the browser was unsuccessful.

So I reformatted my hard drive partitions and re-installed Trisquel 4.5.1-amd64. This time I took all the Security Updates only, and left the recommended updates till I have time to read carefully about each one. Everything is plain sailing now and I am impressed by Trisquel's good looks. Well done, user interface designers, she is such a pretty O/S.

Problems Solved.

Best Wishes

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