Thanks. Apart form E, if there are other interesting desktops out there, please do let me know.
Patrick ----- Original Message ----- From: Jens Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Friday, May 21, 1999 12:09 PM Subject: Re: *.debs for GNOME, apps, Mozilla, KDE... > Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi all, > > > > > Just started a new job in a telecomms company today and to my > > surprise found a CD recorder in my desktop workstation. It seems > > there's no problem with my doing serious downloads so let the search > > for toys begin! > > You are lucky! > > > I installed slink, my first working Linux installation, last Wednesday. > > Congratulations. > > > > > Comments please; is Enlightenment stable and working? It looks > > great but nothing seems to work on it for me. A url of a good > > version in *.deb format would be appreciated. > > > > I installed GNOME using apt-get install and a subdirectory called > > ~jim on the debian site. Is there a similiar one for Enlightenment? > > Is ~jim still the best place to get GNOME and the gtk apps for > > Debian? > > gnome debs have now been migrated to potato (the unstable branch). > > > KDE have a *.deb release in a folder called hamm on their uk mirror. > > It seems hamm is the release before slink. Is this set of *.debs > > likely to work with slink? > > The hamm packets do work with slink (as hamm was the first release > with glibc support). I do not have all packets of kde installed but > the basic set works (kde 1.1). I abandoned kde because I had problems > with another piece of software which didn't like that kde tried to > change something in with the menues. > > > Should I remove all references to GNOME and Enlightenment from my system before upgrading? > > There was a problem when installing kde and gnome at the same time. I > don not know if it still persists. Both packages used a directory > under /usr/share, but with different file formats. > > > Last (I hope question) lets imagine I put all the GNOME stuff on one CD and all the KDE stuff on another; is there an apt-get install EVERYTHING on the CD command? > > dpkg -i `find -name *.deb` > > should do the trick (but without apt's increased checking for > dependencies and conflicts). > > > Apologies for the barrage of questions. Thanks in advance, > Never mind. > > HTH, > > Jens > > P.S.: Please vote against Spam! At > http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ > (Sorry Europeans only) > --- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Key ID: 2048/E451C639 Jens Ritter > Key fingerprint: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E CC 48 1E 05 93 3A A7 10 73 37 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
