Re: installing kde from rpms
On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 01:42:42PM +0800, ramsubs wrote:
> fellow debians:.
>
> i know this email probably belongs to the debian-kde list, so do excuse me
> for posting it here.
>
> i ventured into debian assuming that i'd be able to use both gnome and kde
> on debian. i found out that kde wasn't on the potato distribution.
>
> i tried to convert redhat 6.2's kde rpms to .deb. i stumbled on the advice
> somewhere in dselect to use alien to convert rpm to .deb, rather than use
> rpm to install directly.
you don't need to reinvent the wheel.
add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato main crypto
then, as root, run:
apt-get update
apt-get install task-kde
sam
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