Re: Install kde-desktop on existing debian install
On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 11:00:22 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> writes:
>> How does your "/etc/apt/sources.list" file look like?
>
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main
> deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main
So you are in testing. I hope you now what that means :-)
I see you have omitted "contrib" and "non-free", is that intended?
(...)
>>> I am able to login to an X session.
>
>> Good.
>
> I should have explained further that the X session I am able to log into
> is by startx with .xinitrc aimed at fluxbox.
So you get no KDE login? :-?
(...)
> Only to find it is not installed. This is very confusing. It would
> seem that installing kdm-full would at least install the display
> manager.
Errr, did you read the said instructions, right? ;-)
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Most users will also want to install kdm. There are still a couple of
packages more:
kdetoys Desktop amusements
kdesdk Software development tools
Translations packages are kde-l10n-XX where XX is your language code
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It seems that you have to manually pull that package.
> Further it would seem the dpkg -L kdm would not list files if kdm were
> not installed.
>
> So I am now installing kdm
>
> I'm sure things will change with an actual display manager in tow. I'm
> rebooting now and see what happens.
Okay, hope all goes well now :-)
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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