On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 04:13:03PM -0600, Fethi Okyar wrote: > to move to kde I needed to upgrade my X system. (I was using one > that came with hamm) > [...] > > Only thing mentioned is "use apt-get". Ok, I used "apt-get" to get > the "xbase" package which is supposed to include all what is > neseccary for the upgrade of X or at least thats whats being > claimed. Cause it didnt work!!! > [...]
I believe that xbase is now an empty package--read what /usr/doc/xbase has to say about it. If you add the following line: deb http://kde.tdyc.com/ slink kde to your /etc/apt/sources.list, and then "apt-get install kdebase", all the X and library dependencies should be resolved automatically. > "apt-get" isn't a genius I suppose so, developers shouldn't expect > miracles from it, instead they can give more documentation about > installation procedures. Actually, apt-get is extremely smart--I think the problem you had was not trusting it to be smart enough, along with a perhaps counter-intuitive reorganization of the X package names. > Will anybody hear this outcry out there? The reason I moved to > Debian is cause I was thinking I would get more control as to what I > would be installing on my machine and all the other configuration > issues. I don't want SUPERCLEVER installation engines, I just want > to know what is going on!! Well, you could still manually "dpkg --install abc.deb"'ing every package you need, resolving all the dependencies and "dpkg --remove xyz"'ing all the conflicts and such, but for systems as huge and complex as X and KDE, this would mean *allot* of work. If you haven't already, you might want to check out the Debian FAQ at http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ and the tutorial: http://www.debian.org/~hp/tutorial/debian-tutorial.html/index.html HTH, -Kevin
