Re: 'startx' partly fails + corrupt zsh history file
"Lucas C. Villa Real" <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Mark Filipak <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/05/2015 11:43 AM, Lucas C. Villa Real wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 12:48 AM, Mark Filipak > > Thank you, Lucas. Did you attempt to actually install Gobo, or did > you > > stop at booting the live CD? > > > > I could finally reproduce the problems you reported. There seems to be > > serious issues with the installation of some packages from the Base > > profile -- I see packages in Packages-List-Base.squashfs that for some > > reason are not being installed by the Typical profile. > > > > The easiest workaround, if you truly do not want to use the Full > > profile, is to launch the Installer, then select Typical. Next, click on > > 'Satisfy Dependencies' and finally select the Nettle and MtDev packages > > from the list. > -snip- > > Well, I did as you recommended and I can now boot to TWM Window Manager. > I can run xterm, but nothing else will launch (and of course I am given > no clue why -- as an aside, Linux seems to have 2 modes: 1, overly > verbose but without any help, and 2, silent. Why is that?). > > As I suggested, please go with the Full Profile installation as that will give you more applications options (and a better UI) to begin with. At this point, I really should install the VBox Guest Additions from a > CD image that is automounted by the VirtualBox hypervisor when the Guest > is launched, but I don't know how to run > > '/<...some_mount_point...>/VBOXADDITIONS_4.3.26_98988/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run'. > Heck, I don't know how to find > > '/<...some_mount_point...>/VBOXADDITIONS_4.3.26_98988/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run'. > Hahahahahaha... > > Oh, one more thing: In the "Typical" install, I submitted 'apt-get' to > xterm's CLI and 'apt-get' is not installed. Huh? > GoboLinux uses the directory structure (/Programs) rather than a database (as used by apt-get) to track available packages. The Compile package is what you are looking for. Please see http://www.gobolinux.org/?page=compile for more information. Lucas _______________________________________________ gobolinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-users