What is GNOME?

The GNOME desktop is an attractive and useful desktop environment created by the GNU project. GNOME is both free (under the GPL) and is one of the most widely used desktop environments on the GNU/Linux operating system. The current release of GNOME is 2.12; however 2.8 is available under stable/sarge, while 2.10 is available under testing/etch.

Installing Gnome

If you have not X installed on your box, to get a bare minimum base install of X, do:

 # aptitude install x-window-system-core

The current ["metapackage"] for installing a good set of Gnome tools in [http://www.debian.org/releases/unstable sid], [http://www.debian.org/releases/testing etch] and [http://www.debian.org/releases/stable sarge] ["Debian"] is gnome. So, from the command line, run

 # aptitude install gnome

This will install additional software (gnome-office, evolution) that you may or may not want.

For a smaller set of apps, you can also do

 # aptitude install gnome-desktop-environment

A set of additional productivity apps will be installed by

 # aptitude install gnome-fifth-toe

If you need development packages, e.g. for compiling gnome dependent packages from source, you should try

 # aptitude install gnome-core-devel

For a full set of developer tools, please do

 # aptitude install 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 :

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

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

• http://www.gnome.org/learn/users-guide/latest/user-guide.html : Gnome User Guide.

• http://gnomesupport.org/wiki/index.php/Linux : Gnome wiki about Linux

About Gnome for Debian:

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

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

• [http://gnome-hacks.jodrell.net/ Gnome hacks].

• http://debianlinux.net/gnome.html

• DebianDesktop

• http://gnomesupport.org/wiki/index.php/GnomeDebian

• ?DebianGnomeGoodies

• http://www.gnomefiles.com

• ?GnomeTwoDotEight

• ?GnomeTwoDotTen

• http://lists.debian.org/debian-gtk-gnome/

• [http://www.nabble.com/Gnome-f1226.html Gnome Forum] - search debian keywords in this forum for answers.

Page created 2004-01-12 UTC by ?MattKirchhoff

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