What is GNOME?

The [http://www.gnome.org GNOME] Desktop is an attractive and useful desktop environment. GNOME is both free and one of the most widely used desktop environments on the GNU/Linux operating system. Debian 4.0 Etch includes GNOME 2.14.3.

Installing GNOME

If you do not have ["X"] installed, you can get a bare minimum base install of X, using ["Aptitude"] or ["apt-get"]:

 apt-get install x-window-system-core

The current method for installing a good set of GNOME tools in ["Debian"] [http://www.debian.org/releases/unstable sid] and [http://www.debian.org/releases/stable etch] is using gnome.

Standard

So, from the ["command line"], run

 apt-get install gnome

This will install additional software (rhythmbox, abiword, inkscape...) that you may or may not want.

Other metapackages

• A smaller set of ["app"]s, comprising the official GNOME desktop release: gnome-desktop-environment.

• For a bare minimum installation of GNOME: gnome-core.

• A set of additional productivity applications: gnome-fifth-toe.

• The development packages to compile GNOME dependent packages from source: gnome-core-devel.

• A full development suite for developing GNOME-based applications: gnome-devel.

Configuration

Most configuration of the GNOME desktop is done via its various ["GUI"] utilities. The location of these varies depending on version, but common utilities include networking, themes, sounds and much more. It is also possible to configure (read/write) settings using the command line with ["gconftool"](["2"]).

See also

• ["xinitrc"]

• [http://www.gnome.org] The GNOME Website

• [http://gpe.handhelds.org/] The mini version: GNOME Palmtop Environmnet (GPE).

• [http://www.gnome.org/start/getstable.html] : apt-get install gnome

• [http://www.gnome.org/learn/users-guide/latest/] : GNOME User Guide.

• [http://www.gnomefiles.com] Categorized list of gnome programs.

About GNOME for Debian:

• [http://wiki.debian.org/DebianPackage?action=fullsearch&context=180&value=Gnome Pages about GNOME in DebianWiki].

• [http://lists.debian.org/debian-gtk-gnome/] Debian / Debian Gnome Mailing list

• [http://survivor.sarovar.org/] Debian GNOME Survival Guide.

• IRC channel #gnome-debian on [http://www.xach.com/gimpnet/ GimpNET] ;

Contributors: ?MattKirchhoff, Colin Watson, Ray Dassen, Pedro Macanás Valverde <addyournamehere.>

CategoryDesktopEnvironment