Re: Installing KDE 3.x on Debian
On Saturday 13 November 2004 11:03 am, Ville Koivisto wrote:
> 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,
The KDE that comes with Woody is ver.2.2.x. To get KDE 3.x you need
backports to Woody, and if you are having troubles now this may not be
the route to go. At this time, imho, it would be better to use
Sarge/Testing, rock solid afaikt.
--
Greg C. Madden
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