startx

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celf-infinite
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Hi, my system boots into command line, how do i start gui from the command line?
i have tried startx but command is not found.

SuperTramp83

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Try: sudo apt-get install xorg

celf-infinite
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i installed xorg, but i get an error when running startx.

Majin Buu
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Write the error message and post it here.

celf-infinite
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Please see error message below.

Warning: Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 level, but has 2 symbols
Ignoring extra symbols
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
reporting 5 8 6 44
reporting 5 8 6 44
reporting 5 8 6 44
reporting 5 8 6 44
xinit: connection to X server lost

waiting for X server to shut down (EE) Server terminated successfully (0). closing log file.

SuperTramp83

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Try: sudo apt-get install xinit

celf-infinite
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xinit is installed.

Magic Banana

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Have you tried to start LightDM (or whatever display manager you would have installed)? Here is how:
$ sudo start lightdm