Re: KDE 2.1.1 installation on Debian 2.2r3 stable help
> you were right when you used dselect to install task-kde.
So I'll continue trying with dselect.
> Try something like this:
> 1. Make sure that a Debian Potato KDE archive is in your sources.list file.
Would that be:
deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato main qt1apps optional crypto
...as David Dayan-Rosenman suggested?
Or should it be fine to use "apt-cdrom add" to add the CD I burned with the KDE
packages I downloaded on it?
> 2. Make sure dselect is using the apt access method.
Check.
I take it that I should also Update?
> 3. Select task KDE and accept all the resulting recommendations by pressing
> return on the next screen. You may have to do this several times as each time
> you accept one lot of files it can give rise to more dependencies.
Check.
> 4. Using dselect make sure KDM is selected as a desktop login manager.
Do you mean that I should make sure that kdm is selected for installation?
It is.
> 5. Install it all.
Check.
> 6. Reboot, which should lead you to the KDM login screen.
It dosn't.
No trace of kdm, startkde or any other KDE binary. There's a lot of
documentation installed though, but reading about KDE is far from as exciting
as running the thing.
> 7. Select a user enter the password and select KDE2 as the session type.
Since kdm is not startet I can not do that.
Hmm... I seriously suspect that what I have on my CD is not everything needed
to install KDE.
> Of course you shouldn't need to reboot and there must be other ways of
> starting KDM, but this should work.
I'll be happy just getting KDE in the air somehow. I can always try to
tune/tweak the system afterwards.
A couple of things though.
It sounds like the files I already downloaded were not the full set of files
needed to install KDE.
If the http://-thingy-line is the right thing to put in my sources.list then it
sounds like I need to open an Internet connection before installing and that
dselect will pull the needed files from the Internet.
Is that correct?
I have already downloaded 171 files. It took about 5
hours. I thought they were the full set of files needed, but it sounds like
they were not.
I have burned them on a CD.
Is there any way I can tell Debian to _not_ download those files again?
Five hours is a long time.
Also I will want to install KDE on other Debian 2.2r3 computers, some of which
have no Internet connection and no kind of network connection.
Is there any way I can make a usable KDE installation CD out of whatever dselect
downloads for my KDE installation?
Thanks for the help so far :o)
Johnny :o)
> On Saturday 28 July 2001 3:06 pm, Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I really need help now.
> >
> > I am trying to install KDE 2.1.1 on Debian 2.2r3 (Potato).
> > I can not get it installed. I'm stuck now. Can someone please help?
> >
> > My Potato is freshly installed on a blank computer. It is all standard from
> > the official Debian 2.2r3 CD set. It contains the Debian base, the
> > task-x-window-core, and the correct x-server for my cideo card. Nothing
> > else.
> >
> > That is the starting point for my KDE installation.
> >
> > This is what I have tried:
> >
> > I downloaded a bunch of .deb packages from one of the places linked to
> > from the KDE installation page. It should be the correct set of packages. I
> > cross checked with some of the other mirrors, that the package sets were
> > identical.
> >
> > I burned the packages on a CD in the directory
> > dists/stable/main/binary-i386. That is the path to all the packages as
> > listed in the Packages.gz file.
> >
> > I added the CD to sources.list using apt-cdrom add.
> > I ran apt-get update.
> >
> > Then I have tried these differet ways of installation:
> >
> > dpkg -i <package>
> > ...as outlined in the installation guide on the KDE homepage.
> > All I get are loads of missing dependencies.
> >
> > I then searched this list and recognised the following as possible
> > solutions to my problem:
> >
> > apt-get install kdelibs3 (suggested in
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde-0105/msg00140.html) It didn't work.
> >
> > apt-get install task-kde kdebase (suggested in
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde-0104/msg00059.html) It didn't work.
> >
> > apt-get install kdelibs3 kdebase-libs (suggested in
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde-0104/msg00060.html) It didn't work.
> >
> > I tried installing task-kde using dselect.
> > It said there were inconsistencies and asked me to sort them out.
> > I used the suggested solution (I believe dselect makes a working selection
> > for you, right?)
> > Something installed, but not what was needed.
> > startx startkde didn't work. (In fact startkde has not been installed - it
> > is nowhere on my system).
> >
> > Now I have reached the point where I can say only:
> >
> > Help!
> >
> > Please do not hesitate to ask for details.
> >
> > Best regards
> > Johnny :o)
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