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Re: getting a KDE desktop after install, not Gnome



On Friday 25 February 2005 09:39 am, Pollywog wrote:

> I installed Debian Sarge using a Netinstall ISO and I had one problem 
> when it was all done.  It is difficult to do a manual package 
> selection, so I just had the installer install the system, I chose 
> "Desktop" from the list  presented by the installer.  When the session 
> manager appeared, it was gdm, so I went to a console and first stopped 
> gdm and then removed (purged) the  gdm package, then installed kdm.  I 
> logged in but much to my surprise, I did  not get KDE but got a Gnome 
> desktop.  I removed Nautilus but continued  getting a Nautilus 
> desktop.  In order to get a KDE desktop, I had to remove a  slew of 
> Gnome packages, not just the "Nautilus" packages.         

Remove everything related to Gnome, then install KDE.

> What is the correct way of dealing with this?  Is the only way to do 
> this a manual install (selecting all packages to be installed)? 

Selecting all packages just won't work.  Too many packages conflict with 
other packages.  Just don't try it.

-- 
Paul Johnson
baloo@ursine.ca
http://ursine.ca/~baloo/

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