Re: CDE for Debian
On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 01:03:44PM -0500, Matthew A. Reklau wrote:
> > Is there a version of CDE available for Debian releases and if so where
> > and cost please.
>
> Has anyone here tried RedHat's CDE on Debian? I havn't (can't
> afford it...well I COULD but imnot motivated enough to afford it)
>
I did. RedHat's (Triteal) CDE worked with my former Debian 1.3.
It was installed using the alien package and it took me a few hours to
make it work. The problem was that the installation simply overwrote
important boot scripts (in /etc/init.d/ ...). I would suggest to
read the book which comes with the cdrom first to find out how
CDE starts, which files uses for its configuration AND to scan
the rpm packages for what, where files will be installed. I would
make backup copies of the current corresponding files.
I don't use CDE anymore on my Debian 2.0 so that I can not confirm
that it works with it.
Jozef Skvarcek
jskvarce@shiva.hunter.cuny.edu
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