Installing Gnome on Debian 5 Rumi, September 11, 2011September 11, 2011 The GNOME Desktop task is what is installed by Debian-Installer's Desktop "task" (unless you picked another DesktopEnvironment !). To install it, first make sure that tasksel and aptitude: apt-get install aptitude tasksel Then, install the gnome task: tasksel install gnome-desktop –new-install Administrations Configurations (Linux) Debian