trying to upgrade KDE - now nothing works!
Hi
I've just joined the list and now will appear as a hopeless newbie, but..
here goes...
I had KDE2.1 running nicely on Debian (Potato) for about 4 months, I'm a
web developer so I use Konqueror to test stuff and I also like KNode for
news etc. I'm not a diehard Linux user but I know my way around.
However, I decided to attempt to upgrade to KDE2.2 and tried to use apt-get
to do an upgrade. This found some kde files, proceeded to download them but
they seemed to be a . release of 2.1, at this point I was logged in as
root, in a terminal window on my kde desktop. I decided to give up and
logged out to log back in as my user and then found I could log back into
kde at all. The X Server is still running and if i select 'failsafe' at
login I get bits of KDE such as the terminal.
I also have the KDE2.21 files on a cd-rom, but after extracting the kdebase
or kdelibs and trying to do a ./configure it fails on
checking for libz... configure: error: not found. Check your installation
and look into config.log
config.log confirms that it can't find zlib.h
Sooo... perhaps the problem could be solved if I could find a server with
the correct files on and I could upgrade, or manage to install from this
CD. It has been suggested that i upgrade from potato to Woody, is this a
good idea? How would I go about it?
I probably sound like a rank idiot by now but I am capable of following
instructions if I could find some helpful information, I've been searching
all afternoon for something that might set me in the right direction but to
no avail. If anyone could either explain what I can do to at least get back
to what I had/to upgrade KDE or point me to some information elsewhere I'd
be very grateful.
Thankyou =)
Rachel
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