Re: 'startx' partly fails + corrupt zsh history file

"Lucas C. Villa Real" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.distributions.gobo.general
Message-ID <CAAvzgtbwe-aN2kp400gfuB1a6jsCkmSxkn+_LWFa2WGiY3smCQ@mail.gmail.com>
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

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