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Re: what happened to KDE?




om Kuiper wrote:

Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 18:21:45 -0400
From: Alex Derkach <aderkach@spymac.com>
To: Tom Kuiper <tbhk@dsnra.jpl.nasa.gov>
Cc: cmetzler@speakeasy.net, debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: what happened to KDE?


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Why not just make a new /etc/gdm/Sessions/KDE file?
I've included mine for reference.



That's what I did the last time this happened, but it is no longer an option.
The only kde related command on my system now is /usr/bin/kdetrayproxy

I think the Debian developers have made some policy decision without
announcing it.

Cheers

Tom


* Tom Kuiper (tbhk@dsnra.jpl.nasa.gov) wrote:


Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 17:40:34 -0400
From: Chris Metzler <cmetzler@speakeasy.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: what happened to KDE?


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On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 21:32:37 UTC
Tom Kuiper <tbhk@dsnra.jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:


I few hours ago I upgraded the "unstable" version (2.4.20 kernel) with
'dselect' and found that a KDE log-in session was no longer an option.


I don't know what you mean by "no longer an option."  You tried to start
up KDE but it crashed?  Your display manager no longer gives you a KDE
choice in some menu?  KDE was de-installed?


Aplogies for my vagueness.  What I meant was that KDE is no longer listed
as a session option in gdm log-in window. 
When I accepted the default recommended upgrades, many (but not all)?kde
packages were removed.




I've tried to force it back in but all that did was mess up Gnome a
little. For example, the upper task bar is gone and the lower is empty. I can probably fix that, but I really want KDE back. Does anyone have 
any suggestions?


I don't know what you mean by "force it back".  You tried to re-install
KDE by hand?  You tried to create a new menu entry in a display manager
for KDE? 

I used dselect to select the missing KDE packages.  Creating a menu entry
requires an appropriate entry in /etc/gdm/Sessions for kde, but there isn't
one anymore.



...


#!/bin/sh
#
# /etc/gdm/Sessions/KDE
#
# global KDE session file, used by gdm

exec /etc/X11/Xsession /usr/bin/startkde








Same situation here

installing debian on imac for a friend

dist upgrade with kde
lost kde

sudo apt-get install kde
he following packages have unmet dependencies:
  kde: Depends: kde-core but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: kde-amusements but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: kdeaddons but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: kdeadmin but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: kdeartwork but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: kdegraphics but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: kdemultimedia but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: kdenetwork but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: kdepim but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: kdeutils but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: quanta but it is not going to be installed
I have seen this once before about 6 or so months ago but was rectified very quickly
I have checked bugs.debian.org but cant identify anything. My work mate is looking into it today
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