Re: What's the status of KDE in testing/etch?

[Ernest Knipp <eaknipp@hal-pc.org>]

I have not found a current kde for etch so far; however, you must have 
the woody and sarge directories in your system; use find to look for 
them. There you will find what seem to be  some older versions of kde 
and gdm; does anyone know how to make these work with etch? I suppose 
they are the older versions.

I have a replaceable hard drive, so I can easily switch between 64 bit 
Windows xp, sarge, and etch. kde is available in sarge, and almost 
works; I just am not able to configure X properly. If I had xorgconfig 
available there, I think sarge would be acceptable. I recommend setting 
up so you can switch hard drives for this kind of work. My motherboard 
is Asus A8N-E

Francesco Pietra wrote:

> May I add that I am at 64bit not to carry out what I can do with debian 32 
> testing on my PC, but to speed up quantum mechanical calculations. What I 
> really need is X (I got beautifully as you describe below) and OpenMotif to 
> run a package (that I could compile for 64) that uses OpenGL for the graphics 
> engine, just to see the results in virtual space. Do you know the status of 
> these affairs in amd64 that we have installed?
>
> Implicitly I need to recompile the generic kernel that I have installed. 
> Compiler/libraries (Motiv or Lesstif installed)?
>
> Cheers
> francesco pietra
>
> PS: KDE would be very welcome anyway.
>
>
> On Friday 26 May 2006 16:26, Ernest Knipp wrote:
>  
>
> > I may be at a similar place, have just got etch on. I find X is
> > installed, can be configured with xorgconfig. Then startx gives me GUI
> > window with X cursor, command line window in upper left. No KDE or
> > gnome; but I can go to command line and bring up Mozilla. KDE components
> > are available in woody and sarge directories; can we use these until the
> > real thing comes along?
> >
> > Francesco Pietra wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > Hi Steve:
> > > Did you succeed installing kde?
> > > I have just installed amd64 eich for dual opterons, X-system is waiting to
> > > install kde. Thnks for informing me
> > > francesco pietra
> > >
> > > On Thursday 13 April 2006 09:15, Steve Juranich wrote:
> > >      
> > >
> > > > I just installed a fresh debian system on my spankin' new Athlon 64 X2
> > > > 3800. Things have gone pretty well so far, but I guess I just hit
> > > > everything at just the right time as far as repository sanity goes.
> > > >
> > > > I've tried the past couple of days to `apt-get install kde' with no joy. 
> > > > I keep getting complaints like:
> > > >
> > > > coffee (~)$ sudo apt-get install kde
> > > > Reading package lists... Done
> > > > Building dependency tree... Done
> > > > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> > > > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> > > > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> > > > or been moved out of Incoming.
> > > >
> > > > Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
> > > > the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> > > > that package should be filed.
> > > > The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> > > >
> > > > The 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: kdewebdev but it is not going to be installed
> > > > E: Broken packages
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > So I'm assuimg this all has to do with the migration over to the main
> > > > debian FTP sites and that testing/etch will eventually catch up.  Is this
> > > > a correct assumption?
> > > >
> > > > If it is correct, can somebody give me a ballpark timeline when I can
> > > > expect to be able to install the etch version of KDE for this platform?
> > > > I've tried adding sarge to the repository and also had no luck.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance for any hints.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Steve Juranich
> > > > Tucson, AZ
> > > > USA
> > > >        
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