Problems installing gdm...

[bluesfreak72]

I'm not a newbie to Linux, but am very much a newb to source based distros. I have partially installed Lunar and am at the point of needing to install gdm for Gnome. Here's what happens from the command line:

<command line>

# lin -r gdm
gdm: Invoke gdm via init.d automatically at boot ? [y]
Checking dependencies for gdm
Checking dependencies for librsvg
Checking dependencies for cairo
Building pixman versions 0.13.2
/var/lib/lunar/moonbase/xorg7/lib/pixman/BUILD: line 2 /etc/profile.d/x11r7.rc: No such file or directory
Creating /var/log/lunar/compile BUILD
! Problem detected during BUILD
# find / -name x11r7.rc
#

</command line>

I know the x11r7.rc file is what I need, but I don't know why it's not there - nor how to generate it. I have no idea what to do next nor how to resolve this issue. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
bluesfreak72

[engelsman]

That file comes from the xproto module which should be installed automatically
when you install XOrg7. Have you explicitly installed that? To keep the dependency
tracking simpler there are very few modules that have X as a named dependency. X is
one of those things that you either install it (for a desktop) or you don't (for a server) so
the user needs to do this manually.

If you did install X, check /var/log/lunar/activity to make sure that nothing failed to install...