Can't start Gnome on Arch

Software & Operating Systems Linux
1

I have Arch running in Virtualbox.

I installed gnome and gnome-extra

I put "exce gnome-session" in ~/.xinitrc

"startx" wont work from a user account, I get something like "Bash: "startx" not known"

bla bla bla

What can I do?

2

Could you please outline what steps you have taken to install Gnome? Also which version of Gnome and Arch are you attempting to use?

3

I'm on the newest version of Arch, newest version of Gnome 3

This is exactly what I did:

pacman -S gnome

pacman -S gnome-extra

touch .xinitrc

nano .xinitrc

added "exce gnome-session" to .xinitrc

(I did all of that as root)

I logged into my user account

startx

"-bash: startx: command not found"

 

4

Once logged in try running "xinit gnome-session". Do any errors occur?

 

5

I now get "-bash: xinit: command not found"

6

Install Xserver. You need Xserver to run any DE.

 

sudo pacman -S xorg-server xorg-server-utils xorg-xinit mesa

7

Thanks for responding, I literally just found out I needed to install those.