Re: trouble installing kde
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 21:56:15 -0700, Mike Chandler
<mailmanmike@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>
> On Thursday 03 June 2004 09:50 pm, Ignatz Sol wrote:
> > On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 21:33:44 -0700, Mike Chandler
> >
> > <mailmanmike@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > > On Thursday 03 June 2004 09:28 pm, Ignatz Sol wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 23:04:30 -0500, Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:
> > > > > Ignatz Sol wrote:
> > > > > >I'm sure that I'm just suffering from newbitis and I apologize. I'm
> > > > > >trying to install kde on sarge. I have done apt-get kde. I have
> > > > > > the first 4 cds and everything installed with no problem and only a
> > > > > > few items required to download. When I tried startkde I got
> > > > > > something like:
> > > > >
> > > > > [errors]
> > > > >
> > > > > Try something other than KDE to get started.
> > > > >
> > > > > "apt-get install icewm"
> > > > > then create/edit ~/.xinitrc and put the single line "icewm" in and
> > > > > then "startx".
> > > > >
> > > > > If that doesn't work, the problem is with X, not KDE.
> > > > >
> > > > > If that does work, then try installing KDE; "apt-get install kde".
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Kent
> > > >
> > > > I just found on the kde site that you are not supposed to start kde
> > > > with the command "startkde". You are supposed to start it with
> > > > "startx" and edit ~/.xinitrc to say "startkde". This did seem to do
> > > > something and the screen blanked and tried to start, but then came
> > > > back to terminal with some X errors. It was a screenfull and I didn't
> > > > write them down. Is there a way to copy text in the console?
> > > >
> > > > So I'm thinking that it's a problem with X. I will go back and try
> > > > icewm and see what happens. If it is a problem with X, how the heck
> > > > do I diagnose it? Where do I start?
> > >
> > > I believe you need to reconfigure your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.
> > > If you use an nvidia video card, make sure the driver listed is 'nv' (or
> > > maybe 'vesa', they have both worked for me in the past.
> > > If you have another brand, I can't help.
> >
> > SOLVED! I needed to apt-get install x-window-system-core. I was
> > missing the xfonts I think, at least that what the main failure was
> > when I was trying to start KDE. Whew! I must have done that the hard
> > way... But it's working great now and I've got a beautiful KDE
> > desktop.
> >
> > I think that the problem was trying to install kde with apt-get. I
> > thought going in that "apt-get install kde" would do the work for me.
> > I didn't really want to install the whole desktop environment package
> > with Gnome and all from Aptitude. But obviously apt-get doesn't take
> > care of everything for you.
> >
> > In summary, I think that you could get kde running with the following:
> >
> > apt-get install kde kdm xserver-xfree86 x-window-system-core
> >
> > And I don't think I went past cd 3 of the set. I did have to download
> > a few things, but really almost nothing...
> >
> > Hooray! Thanks for all the help!
>
> Great!
> Question, when you were doing the install, did you not have a chance to run
> 'tasksel'?
> Cuz if you did, it could have set that all up for you.
> Just curious.
>
Well, it was my understanding that running the install for "Desktop
Environment" from tasksel would install Gnome and KDE and I thought,
being a newb, that it would be simpler to not do it that way as I
don't want Gnome... Now I see that it would have been easier to do it
all with aptitude or tasksel and then simply remove Gnome if I indeed
did not want it...
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