Re: *.debs for GNOME, apps, Mozilla, KDE...
Patrick Kirk <patrick@kirks.net> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> Just started a new job in a telecomms company today and to my
> surprise found a CD recorder in my desktop workstation. It seems
> there's no problem with my doing serious downloads so let the search
> for toys begin!
You are lucky!
> I installed slink, my first working Linux installation, last Wednesday.
Congratulations.
>
> Comments please; is Enlightenment stable and working? It looks
> great but nothing seems to work on it for me. A url of a good
> version in *.deb format would be appreciated.
>
> I installed GNOME using apt-get install and a subdirectory called
> ~jim on the debian site. Is there a similiar one for Enlightenment?
> Is ~jim still the best place to get GNOME and the gtk apps for
> Debian?
gnome debs have now been migrated to potato (the unstable branch).
> KDE have a *.deb release in a folder called hamm on their uk mirror.
> It seems hamm is the release before slink. Is this set of *.debs
> likely to work with slink?
The hamm packets do work with slink (as hamm was the first release
with glibc support). I do not have all packets of kde installed but
the basic set works (kde 1.1). I abandoned kde because I had problems
with another piece of software which didn't like that kde tried to
change something in with the menues.
> Should I remove all references to GNOME and Enlightenment from my system before upgrading?
There was a problem when installing kde and gnome at the same time. I
don not know if it still persists. Both packages used a directory
under /usr/share, but with different file formats.
> Last (I hope question) lets imagine I put all the GNOME stuff on one CD and all the KDE stuff on another; is there an apt-get install EVERYTHING on the CD command?
dpkg -i `find -name *.deb`
should do the trick (but without apt's increased checking for
dependencies and conflicts).
> Apologies for the barrage of questions. Thanks in advance,
Never mind.
HTH,
Jens
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