I recently did a netinstall of Debian Squeeze and during the install I unticked Desktop Environment because I didn't want to install Gnome as the default DE. So I end up with a command line during boot. Now I want to install LXDE and I was wondering which to install: xorg or xserver-xorg (or both) before installing LXDE?
And yes, I realized later that I could have chosen LXDE as an alternative DE during install but I don't want to reinstall again.
Best Answer
Short answer:
will do.
Longer answer:
The
aptitude show
command will show you a description of a package and its dependencies from the command line, so you can use that to decide whether to install the package or not. Keep in mind thataptitude
andapt-get
have automated dependency resolution, so packagelxde
will install the parts of the X Window System that it needs. (And it's a bug to report if it does not.)So, on to checking
xorg
:So you definitely want
xorg
installed, whatever desktop system you are going to use.