Re: Kde metapackage

[Bob Underwood <mgkrebs1@home.com>]

On Monday 05 November 2001 12:47, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 12:34:29PM -0500, Bob Underwood wrote:
> > On Monday 05 November 2001 12:13, Laurent Rathle wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Did anyone tried to install KDE with the metapackage kde ? I'm trying
> > > to write a little tutorial for the installation of KDE 2.2.x and when I
> > > installed it on my machine there was no kde metapackage and I took
> > > everything from unstable package by package. So I'd like to know if I
> > > put in my tutorial that people can do :
> > >
> > > apt-get -t unstable install kde
> > >
> > > if it's gonna work
> > >
> > > (with the good /etc/apt/preferences and /etc/apt/sources.list, for sure
> > >
> > > :-))
> > >
> > > Thank you,
> >
> > There are a couple things missing in the kde metapackage that I use (like
> > kmail).  I did notice it appears in one of the other kde metapackages, so
> > i did an apt-get -t unstable install kde kde-extras -s.  The kde-extras
> > wanted to change more of my system to unstable than I wanted so I backed
> > out.  The deps on just the kde metapackage don't appear to change
> > anything other than kde packages.
>
> what?  kmail is in the kde meta package.
>
> Ivan

my apologies, Ivan.  You are correct; kmail is, indeed, in the kde 
metapackage.

Now, to remember what it is that prompted me to even look at the kde-extras 
metapackage.

bob