Re: installing kde from rpms
yup, i did see the same advice in another KDE email. but i don't want to
spend bundles of dollars downloading over the net. in my country, we have to
pay telecoms for every minute of use.
i already have redhat install cds, so this is the reason why i chose this
route.
----- Original Message -----
From: Sam Varghese <sam@gnubies.com>
To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2001 2:30 PM
Subject: 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
> --
> (Sam Varghese)
> http://www.gnubies.com
>
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