Re: attempted install on Debian system

[Brian Templeton]

Ric Otte <ric@otte.ucsc.edu> writes:

> I am completely new to GNUstep and followed the directions on
> downloading gnustep for a debian unstable system at
> http://www.gnustep.org/resources/sources.html . According to that, I
> should simply do:
>
>    apt-get install gnustep gnustep-devel gnustep-games
>
> The problem is that after doing so I am not able to start
> projectmanager or gorm. When I attempt to start either, I get the
> error message
>
>   NSInvalidArgumentException: NSTask - Launch path
>   (/usr/lib/GNUstep/System/Tools/gdnc) not valid
>
> I looked, and I don't have a file /usr/lib/GNUstep/System/Tools/gdnc.  
>
> Any suggestions on what I might do?  Thanks,
>
> Ric

I think you also need to install the package gnustep-core.
gnustep-core indirectly depends on gnustep-base-common, which provides
the file you're missing.