[TriLUG] New Mandrake 8.1 install. but no X. HUH?

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 15:03, Justin Johnson wrote:
> Ok this may be premature, but what the heck.
> 
> I was at CompUSA yesterday and Mandrake 8.1 Power Pack started talking to
> me, so I took it
> home and gave it a place to live on a Dell Cpi D300 XT laptop. It was quite
> happy. But then I noticed something.
> I boot up, and there is no X. I think.  I'm new to all this 'linux stuff',
> but I have several Red Hat installs under my belt,
> so I thought I'd take a look at another distro. I don't like GUI logins, so
> I selected console login during X config part of
> install. but when I log in and then type startx, I get (not verbatim)
> 'command not found'.
> 
> Any ideas? Did I hose something. It was LATE when I started the install, and
> even LATER when it finished (mandrake install seems slooow),
> so I don't know if I just missed something or what. System is at home, and I
> have to wait till my 2 year old goes to sleep at 9:00 to be able to touch
> the system or he goes ballistic and tears the keys off the keyboard. Future
> kernel developer? :-)
> 
> Last thing I checked / noticed. In /<can't remember>/X11R6/bin directory
> there is no startx file. I looked here because some .conf file in /etc
> was referencing that file at that location. Does this indicate anything?
> 
> Thanks,
> JJ
> 

Hmmm... I'm running Mandrake 8.1.  Let's see...


lovelace kendrick ~ 354_ which startx
/usr/X11R6/bin/startx
lovelace kendrick ~ 355_ 

Yep, startx is there...

lovelace kendrick ~ 356_ rpm -qf /usr/X11R6/bin/startx
XFree86-4.1.0-17mdk
lovelace kendrick ~ 357_ 

So, I suggest typing this command:

rpm -qi XFree86

If it comes back

package XFree86 is not installed

then you somehow installed it without X.  If you did, however,
you should be able to, as root, type

urpmi XFree86

and it will prompt you to put the needed CDs in your drive
and will install X and all its dependencies. :-)

Tanner
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