Linux/Installing GUI for debian lenny

Installing a GUI on Debian Lenny

The most popular GUIs for linux are Gnome and KDE, here, i will show you how to get GNOME on a system where you accidentally only installed a Base system

If your computer only has a command prompt when it boots, Chances are you do not have a GUI installed on the system

To make things easier for us, The debian developers have put together a virtual package named gnome

So, to install the virtual package that Debian has put together you can simply execute

0- Login to your system as root, enter the username root and the password of the root user

1- To update your system to get the latest editions

apt-get update

2- To install the virtual GNOME package (The GUI)

apt-get install gnome

uswsusp (Userspace Software Suspend) configuration might display a message such as

No userspace software suspend support in the kernel

The current kernel doesn't support userspace software suspend. Please recompile the 
kernel with the 'CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y' option