Installing KDE 3.x on Debian
Hi!
First of all, please excuse me since this is the second time I'm asking
almost the same question :). The problem is, again, how to install KDE 3.x
on Woody (r2)? Recently I was forced to reinstall Debian on my Compaq Armada
laptop and I did it with the bf24-kernel which comes with the distro CDs.
X-Window was the only selection with tasksel, ignoring dselect altogether,
so the installation was quite minimal this time. After completing the
installation I added Debian security site to sources.list and ran
dist-upgrade.
The actual problem emerges when I add a KDE packet source or a mirror
site(s) to sources.list and run apt-get update:
Get: 1 (any KDE mirror ftp/http) stable/main Packages
Get: 2 (any KDE mirror ftp/http) stable/main Release
Ign (any KDE mirror ftp/http) stable/main Release
It seems that the Release is missing. I've tried several sources
(ftp.kde.org, download.kde.org and several mirrors) and version directories
(from 3.1.5 to 3.3.1). Running 'apt-get install kdebase' reports missing
backages and broken dependencies. Dist-upgrade affects only X-window-system
and tries to remove almost every package else related to X-Window. I've also
tried removing installation CDs and Debian package sources from
sources.list, but without any effect.
Last time when I asked help with the issue, I had instructions to add a KDE
package source to sources.list and run apt-get update, and so forth. This
time it doesn't work and the only thing that has really changed is the newer
kernel. Could somebody help me with this please? I would be thankful if you
could point me the related documents or howtos to read also. I would really
like to understand whats going on. Thank you in advance,
Ville Koivisto
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