什么是GNOME?

GNOME 桌面是一个既迷人又实用的桌面环境。GNOME是免费的同时又是GNU/Linux操作系统最广为应用的桌面环境之一。

Debian上的Gnome

在Debian里安装Gnome有四种选择：

	如何安装	描述
"Gnome Desktop"	tasksel see below	Debian's selection of applications (This is what is installed on a freshly installed system. It include some applications non gnome.org applications, like openoffice, iceweasel, inkscape...)
Gnome (Upstream)	gnome package	The standard/upstream distribution of the GNOME desktop environment (plus a complete range of plugins and other applications integrating with GNOME and Debian, providing the best possible environment to date.)
Gnome Desktop-Environnement	gnome-desktop-environment package	A subset "Gnome (Upstream)", used by the Debian's "Gnome Desktop" task
Gnome (core only)	gnome-core package	This is a minimalist gnome installation (You have to installation all end-user applications later). Above packages depend on this on.

Watch out recommended packages (i.e packages dependencies) !
- (you might or might not want to install them).

开发者：

Gnome桌面 task is what is installed by Debian-Installer's Desktop "task" (unless you picked another DesktopEnvironment !).

为了安装它，首先确保 tasksel 和 aptitude 已经安装:
```
apt-get install aptitude tasksel
```
然后, 安装the gnome task:
```
tasksel install gnome-desktop --new-install
```
(The option --new-install ensure we end-up with what DebianInstaller would have installed ).

FYI,

The "Gnome Desktop" task is actually the sum of tasksel's common desktop (desktop) and tasksel's selected desktop (gnome-desktop) :

#tasksel -t install gnome desktop
aptitude -q --without-recommends -o APT::Install-Recommends=no -y install ~t^desktop$ ~t^gnome-desktop$

As of DebianSqueeze, this corresponds to:

(tasksel --task-packages desktop ; tasksel --task-packages gnome-desktop) | sort -u

大多数的GNOME桌面配置可以通过各种 GUI 工具来实现。这些工具的变化取决于版本，但是常见的工具包括网络，主题，声音等等。也可以使用命令行与gconftool(2)来设置(读/写)这些桌面配置。

About GNOME for Debian: