On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 21:48, Neal Lippman wrote: > My problem now is: How do I get kde? apt-get install kde doesn't work, > telling me I need to specify a package name. Looking at the listing of > packages in /var/apt/cache, there are a whole bunch of kde-related packages, > but it isn't clear what to select to just get the whole kde installed (I am > assuming that when I apt-get kde, X will come along automatically due to > dependencies). Do I need to install each kde package individually? That > doesn't seem right, since I thought the whole point of debian (well, one of > the whole points, anyway) was the power and simplicity of apt-get.
Better discuss this on the debian-kde list, but right it's a user issue as well :-) Are there kde packages installed, which version? Run dpkg -l "*kde*" to find that out. Maybe you have installed kde and it simply does not start? For sure, not all X packages are installed that you need. Do you jave any xclients/xdm/kdm things? The other thing is: The kde packages in woody have been a lot in transition lately: 2.2.0 -> 2.2.1 -> 2.2.2 As you should not mix kde packages from different versions, most kde woody users have problems. I have solved that by getting the kde packages from sid/unstable. Bye, Steffen
