Kendall Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Dan S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > KDE2 is now part of woody. Just do an apt-get install kde and you should be > > ok. > > I don't see any package called kde, except in the packages for sid. > > I see kdebase for woody (It sure would be convenient if the packages > had the same names as the packages that kde distributes). > > The install seems to be a little weird though. Doing apt-get install > kdebase gets me kdebase and kdelibs3 which is for version 2.2.2 while > kdebase is for version 2.2.1 and when kde loads it sayd kde 2.2.1. > > Any hints about how to get kde 2.2.2 installed under woody (aside from > the crochety standby "consult http://www.google.com";). I tried adding > unstable to my sources.list and setting up an /etc/apt/preferences > file after someone's adivce but when I try to install the package > called kde, apt complains that the package is "broken".
As pointed out by others, the correct package is "kdebase". Also, use dselect to install it, not apt-get. Dselect is quite a bit smarter than apt-get, in its quirky way. It'll pick up Recommends: packages, which tend to be quite important. -- Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bignachos.com
