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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"]:

 aptitude 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

 aptitude install gnome

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

Other metapackages

  • A smaller set of apps, 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 [wiki:GUI 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 :

About GNOME for Debian:


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