On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 11:39:10PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 08:49:20AM -0500, Don Jackson wrote: > > I've been using KDE desktop on my system with Sarge. Last night did an > > apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade before shutting system down. This > > morning it booted up with Gnome desktop instead of the usual KDE, much to my > > surprise and displeasure. > > > > Hints on how to change back to KDE the least painful way would be appreciated. > > As far as I know, I did not voluntarily change anything for this to happen. > > Am I the only one affected? BTW, I have nothing against gnome ... it is just > > that I started years ago with KDE and have stuck with it. My desktop with > > the involuntary "conversion" is a real mess! > > Is this related?: > > Last time I did an upgrade (from aptitude, last week) it offered to remove a > huge number of packages for me, almost all of them related to KDE. > Apparently some package that depended on all of them was no longer > present. Indeed, I could not find a package called simply "kde", which > I presumed would be the name of the virtual package that hauls in the > KDE components. I hand-included packages until the proposed deletions > were gone, and had no ill effects. > > Was there indeed supposed to be a package "kde"? or soething that fulfills > the same role? And did it disappear? >
The package kde did exist in Sarge until Tuesday 31 Aug. That is when I attempted a dist-upgrade and was distracted by a phone call as aptitude trashed my system. I solved my problem by moving to unstable, which has a useful version of the package kde, and versions of all the packages on which it depends. -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
