Re: KDE 3.1.1 -- help!

[JS Bangs <jaspax@u.washington.edu>]

> > Unfortunately, now nothing works. The startkde script, recommended by
> > kde.org for starting kde sessions, no longer exists. Worse, I don't see
> > any evidence that any kde binary exists: `ls /usr/bin | grep kde.*` shows
> > a variety of kde-related scripts, but the kde itself is missing. And
> > apt-get doesn't report any package named kde (in any version) to be
> > installed, though dselect shows 2.2.25 to be available but not installed.
> > And dselect screams its head off about conflicts any time I do anything.
>
>
> Try and run apt-get install kdebase kdm. This will install a minimal system
> that you can work with. Then run kdenetwork kdegraphic etc etc untill its how
> you want.

Ah. I tried this over and it worked. I don't know why it wasn't working
before, but I think it's a problem with dselect being confused over
dependencies. Anyway, doing it by hand with apt-get works fine, and
aptitude also works. Hooray!

Thanks, everyone.

Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
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