what to do when X install fails?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 11:30:51AM -0800, Brian Craft wrote:

> I just did a warty install, and X was never installed. There were no
> warnings or error messages, it just didn't install any of the X stuff.

Perhaps you requested a "custom" install?  That's the only way that this can
happen without severe errors (and corresponding messages).

> I got the server with apt-get and tried configuring it. The default
> settings failed due to a framebuffer issue in the mga driver. Commenting
> out UseFBDev got it to work.
> 
> I'm wondering now if 1) there's any way to fix this during the install,
> and 2) if there's any easy way to grab all of the rest of the X stuff
> that wasn't installed (e.g. gnome-terminal, metacity, etc.). I don't
> want to go through package by package figuring out what is missing.

To get the complete set of desktop packages you are missing, install the
"ubuntu-desktop" package.

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

(or use Synaptic)

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 - mdz