Re: Help me Please: I've Gone and Done Some Thing Really Stupid.

[kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com>]

David R. Litwin wrote:

> My Debian was being evil and wouldn't load due to some mouse troubles
> (which I really need to fix; but that comes later) and so I tried to
> apt-get my way out of the situation (It would but up and start X
> (KDE), but this resulted in no gui: only command line. So I apt-got
> from there). It asked me to download some thing that would get rid of
> 171 things. In a Momentary Lapse of Reason (I've had very little
> sleep), I pushed yes.
>
> It turns out that those 171 things was KDE.
>
> I have no KDE, my Gnome will not work (for some reason) and I forget
> the apt-get install code for KDE 3.4.1.
>  
There is a meta package called kde. If you install this, it will pull 
all the kde related dependencies. It is very easy to do this.

1) become root
2) Issue the command
  apt-get install kde

Follow the instructions on the screen.

As a side note, In the future, try learning about sudo and use it to 
install packages directly instead of becoming root.

hth
raju

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Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Graduate Student, MAE
Cornell University
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