How do I install GDM on Raspbian?

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How do I install GDM and any other necessary packages for it to run on the Raspbian image?

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 29 '12 at 07:06

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The Pi doesn't have very powerful hardware. GDM will have heaps of Gnome dependencies. It might be better to look for a lighter weight login manager. SLIM might be a good choice (I think Raspbian is using it). Otherwise LightDM is what Ubuntu uses.

answered Jul 29 '12 at 07:06

David C. Bishop

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score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 29 '12 at 14:36

Assuming you just want to install GDM, and not an actual window manager, just run.

$ sudo apt-get install gdm

This would be strange though as GDM is a display manager. A display manager only provides the equivalent of a login prompt. In order to actually use your desktop you would need to install a window manager, such as GNOME or Xfce.

So, just in case you would like to also install a window manager then you need to do the following.

First, you need to make sure you have tasksel and aptitude. You can install these on Debian-derived systems via apt-get.
```
$ sudo apt-get install aptitude tasksel
```

Now you need to install the GNOME task via tasksel.

$ sudo tasksel install gnome-desktop --new-install

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Gnome - Debian Wiki

How do I install GDM on Raspbian?

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