Re: Best way to install kde-standard
I went ahead and tried to get kde-standard in the following way:
"aptitude install kde-plasma-desktop"
"aptitude install --without-recommends kde-standard"
Here are my findings:
On 2010-05-08 Diederik de Haas wrote:
> After rebooting and logging into KDE I noticed the following things:
> - When plugging in a usb device, device-notifier didn't notice anything and
> the only way to access that usb device was to use mount it from Konsole
> - The battery monitor didn't work at all
> - I did not have a suspend to disk/ram option
> - System Monitor - Harddisk didn't see any partitions
Device notifier works as expected, battery monitor works, suspend to disk/ram is not only available,
but even working :-) system monitor - harddisk picks up my / and /home just as expected.
> The difference in --with-recommends and --without-recommends are so big wrt
> kde-standard that I think kde-standard should be installed with the
> recommended packages.
> But leaving out network-manager-kde seems to also not install some packages
> which may have contributed to the problems described above. On first
> inspection libgudev-1.0-0 and libknotificationitem-1-1 seem especially
> relevant.
Since all previous reported issues work now, network-manager-kde is not needed, nor it's
dependencies.
> So I would like to know how other ppl are installing kde(-standard) without
> bloating their system, but with a properly functional one.
> Tips/tricks/etc are also welcome.
Although I fixed the issues I had, I'm still interested, especially ppls experience with recommended
packages.
Regards,
Diederik
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