Re: package names for .deb files
"Ivan E. Moore II" wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 04:19:43PM +0800, Tim&Pep wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to install kde on my system (running potato) using apt-get.
>
> I'm really curious how that apt-get line worked...there is no package called
> kde-libs.
>
well, the first thing I did was:
apt-get install kdebase
> this gave me an error saying something about kde-libs not installed and that
> they weren't going to be installed. So then I tried,
apt-get install kde-libs
At which point, apt went to work and installed some stuff. (I'm a newbie so
forgive my obvious ignorance.)
After that finished I started
apt-get install kdebase
which is working, although at the moment its stalled.
also in there I occasionally had to use the --fix-missing option.
>
> have you tried apt-get install task-kde ...or even better...have you tried
> using a front end to apt like dselect...
>
I haven't heard of task-kde. If that's the way to go then that's what I'll try
next. As for dselect, I'm not clear on how to use that for installing packages
from the web. Do I do something under "Access?"
>
> Ivan
>
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