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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