Re: *.debs for GNOME, apps, Mozilla, KDE...
Thanks. Apart form E, if there are other interesting desktops out there,
please do let me know.
Patrick
----- Original Message -----
From: Jens Ritter <jens@hilbert.weh.rwth-aachen.de>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Friday, May 21, 1999 12:09 PM
Subject: 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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