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My default GNOME WM is GONE!!

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voidmain:
I'm guessing you probably need to install Gnome.

Calum:
try doing a 'which gnome-session' just to see if it is installed, and if so, if it is in your path.

voidmain:
You may have meant this but "which" will not tell you if something is installed. It will only tell you if a specific command is in your PATH and is executable. If I were him I would do a:

rpm -qa | grep gnome

or more specifically

rpm -qa | grep gnome-session
rpm -qa | grep gnome-desktop

[ October 10, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

Calum:
yup, would that work only if he had used rpms to install it though? (this would have been the case though, wouldn't it, if it had been installed by the linux installer) What would one have to do to check this out if the package had not been an rpm one? would you have to then use 'find'?

voidmain:
Yes it would have had to have been installed as an RPM which I assume it was since he is on Mandrake. But if he did not use RPMS and used source then he could always do a "locate gnome-session" which will search the locate database created by the "updatedb"  command which is pretty much installed and run daily by default on all Linux distros these days.

It would search for any occurance of "gnome-session" appearing in the name of a file or directory on your hard drive, but do it *much* faster than the "find" command can do as it searches a database. updatedb is usually run nightly from cron on a default install.

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