RE: Getting KDE stuff off root (was Can't use GUI as root)

2004-04-07 Thread David Baron
Tried that among other things. Got me half way there with KDE3.1.* but still crashed on certain operations. In 3.2.*, Kmail will always crash. On Tuesday 06 April 2004 23:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I am still trying to coax KDE into letting me simply move everything to another > > login

Re: Getting KDE 3.1

2003-09-01 Thread csj
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 19:59:35 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > [...] > How do you find and remove all of the old kde packages? I am sure > there are better ways. I found all version 2.2.2 packages and then > manually skimmed the list to make sure it was only kde packages and > then removed that list.

Re: Getting KDE 3.1

2003-09-01 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > > After having tracked some of the KDE updates I would not recommend it > for the faint of heart. There is no clear update path at this moment. > The most reliable method I have found is to completely remove kde > first then install the new kde packages second.

Re: Getting KDE 3.1

2003-09-01 Thread Bob Proulx
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> deb ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/Debian woody main > >>> Then do apt-get update and apt-get upgrade. > > I had done this before and thought that maybe Sarge had changed since then > and made it impossible, but last night I kept at it and got it. Actually

Re: Getting KDE 3.1

2003-08-31 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > Hello > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > >> In linux.debian.user, you wrote: >>> >>> There is a KDE 3.1.3 backport available for Woody from KDE.org. Add >>> this to your sources.list: >>> >>> deb ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/Debian

Re: Getting KDE 3.1

2003-08-30 Thread William Bradley
On Saturday 30 August 2003 01:15 pm, Andreas Janssen wrote: > It seems apt knows about the new packages. However, it seems strange to > me that the source for the original package from Woody is not listed. > > Did you already try: > > apt-get dist-upgrade Hi Andreas, No, I used apt-get upgrade

Re: Getting KDE 3.1

2003-08-30 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello William Bradley (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On Saturday 30 August 2003 09:45 am, Andreas Janssen wrote: >> William Bradley (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: >>> On Friday 29 August 2003 04:15 am, Andreas Janssen wrote: >>>> [Getting KDE 3 backports

Re: Getting KDE 3.1

2003-08-30 Thread William Bradley
On Saturday 30 August 2003 09:45 am, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > William Bradley (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > On Friday 29 August 2003 04:15 am, Andreas Janssen wrote: > >> [Getting KDE 3 backports from ftp.kde.org] > > > > I did the above an

Re: Getting KDE 3.1

2003-08-30 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello William Bradley (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On Friday 29 August 2003 04:15 am, Andreas Janssen wrote: >> >> [Getting KDE 3 backports from ftp.kde.org] > > I did the above and when I updated the etc/apt/souces.list I opened > access to the security update

Re: Getting KDE 3.1

2003-08-30 Thread William Bradley
On Friday 29 August 2003 04:15 am, Andreas Janssen wrote: > William Bradley (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > Presently Debian Woody ships with KDE 2.2.2. I would like to upgrade > > it to KDE 3.1, which I believe is available in the unstable Debian. > > There must be a way I can get at it with apt

Re: Getting KDE 3.1

2003-08-30 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello William Bradley (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On Friday 29 August 2003 05:08 pm, Andreas Janssen wrote: >> >> The difference is that the packages on kde.org are built for stable, >> not for unstable. > > I am running the stable or Woody version of Debian. Does that mean > that I can get t

Re: Getting KDE 3.1

2003-08-29 Thread William Bradley
On Friday 29 August 2003 05:08 pm, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Grand Apeiron (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > Andreas Janssen wrote: > >> As far as I know there is no backport of KDE 3.1.3 for Sarge. This > >> question has been discussed recently on debian-user-german, and I > >> think at th

Re: Getting KDE 3.1

2003-08-29 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Grand Apeiron (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Andreas Janssen wrote: >> As far as I know there is no backport of KDE 3.1.3 for Sarge. This >> question has been discussed recently on debian-user-german, and I >> think at the moment you either have to wait or get the packages from >> unstable.

Re: Getting KDE 3.1

2003-08-29 Thread Grand Apeiron
Hi, afaik, the version of kde in unstable is 3.1.3, isnt it? so where is the diffrence bettween the packages from kde.org and the ones from the unstable tree? thanx and greetings, Grand Apeiron Andreas Janssen wrote: As far as I know there is no backport of KDE 3.1.3 for Sarge. This question has b

Re: Getting KDE 3.1

2003-08-29 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED] (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > In linux.debian.user, you wrote: >> >> There is a KDE 3.1.3 backport available for Woody from KDE.org. Add >> this to your sources.list: >> >> deb ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/Debian woody main >> >> Then do apt-get update and a

Re: Getting KDE 3.1

2003-08-29 Thread ajlewis2
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > > There is a KDE 3.1.3 backport available for Woody from KDE.org. Add this > to your sources.list: > > deb ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/Debian woody main > > Then do apt-get update and apt-get upgrade. Is there anyway to do this for Sarge as well?

Re: Getting KDE 3.1

2003-08-29 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello William Bradley (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Presently Debian Woody ships with KDE 2.2.2. I would like to upgrade > it to KDE 3.1, which I believe is available in the unstable Debian. > There must be a way I can get at it with apt-get but at this stage of > my experience I don't know how

Getting KDE 3.1

2003-08-29 Thread William Bradley
Presently Debian Woody ships with KDE 2.2.2. I would like to upgrade it to KDE 3.1, which I believe is available in the unstable Debian. There must be a way I can get at it with apt-get but at this stage of my experience I don't know how this is done. Thank you, Bill. -- William Bradley Com

Re: Help getting KDE!

2001-12-15 Thread Steffen Evers
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

Help getting KDE!

2001-12-14 Thread Neal Lippman
I could use some pointers; I've gone back a few months in the mailing list archives, and just cannot find an answer to this. I'm a debian newbie, having been running Mandrake for the past year. I just got a second computer to use for debian, figuring I'd work out all the kinks on the install th

Re: getting kde desktop with xterm

2001-12-05 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 03:20:20PM +1000, Jason Currey wrote: > I am running kde on my machine and I can successfully telnet to other > machines. > > I can then successfully run up an xterm > > export DISPLAY='mymachine':0.0 > xterm > > and run kde applications > > konqueror > > however I wa

getting kde desktop with xterm

2001-12-04 Thread Jason Currey
I am running kde on my machine and I can successfully telnet to other machines. I can then successfully run up an xterm export DISPLAY='mymachine':0.0 xterm and run kde applications konqueror however I want to be able to get the remote desktop in a single kde frame. Does anyone know how to

Re: apt-getting KDE 2.1 breaks startx

2001-03-01 Thread Simon Hepburn
Try creating an .xsession file in your home directory containing this line: exec /usr/bin/kde2 On Thursday 01 March 2001 1:45 am, Ross Smith wrote: > I recently installed Debian potato and apt-getted helix-gnome. > > Everything was working fine. > > Since I heard about KDE 2.1, and I prefer to u

apt-getting KDE 2.1 breaks startx

2001-02-28 Thread Ross Smith
I recently installed Debian potato and apt-getted helix-gnome. Everything was working fine. Since I heard about KDE 2.1, and I prefer to use KDE, I did: apt-get install kdebase task-kde from deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato main crypto optional qt1apps The install worked fine, but now when I ty

RE: getting kde

1999-05-25 Thread Bruce Sass
Try: http://snowcrash.tdyc.com/debian/dists/slink/rkrusty/binary-i386/ -- On Tue, 25 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: > > On 24-May-99 Chris Hoover wrote: > > does anyone know of a http site that I can get debian debs of kde 1.1.1 > > from? > > > > thanks, > > > > chris > No http that I know of. I

Re: getting kde

1999-05-25 Thread Shao Zhang
Yes! Of course! You can use apt-get to do that... just put this line in your sources.list file: deb http://snowcrash.tdyc.com/debian slink rkrusty On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 12:32:55AM -, Pollywog wrote: > > On 24-May-99 Chris Hoover wrote: > > does anyone know of a http site that I can get d

RE: getting kde

1999-05-25 Thread Pollywog
On 24-May-99 Chris Hoover wrote: > does anyone know of a http site that I can get debian debs of kde 1.1.1 > from? > > thanks, > > chris No http that I know of. I am downloading the most recent ones now from: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/incoming

Re: getting kde

1999-05-25 Thread Seppo Hassinen
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Chris Hoover wrote: > does anyone know of a http site that I can get debian debs of kde 1.1.1 from? From ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/1.1.1/distribution/deb/hamm/binary-i386/kde or from several mirrors Wishes Seppo -

getting kde

1999-05-25 Thread Chris Hoover
does anyone know of a http site that I can get debian debs of kde 1.1.1 from? thanks, chris

Re: Getting KDE up and running.

1999-01-12 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 11 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yup - you got it. The startkde macro starts kfm, but I don't see where it's > starting kfmclient - is that a separate operation? how can I turn it off? I > just don't want it to start when KDE starts up. It co

Re: Getting KDE up and running.

1999-01-12 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 1/11/99 8:45:15 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I believe you are saying that you dislike the functions of kfmclient, not > kfm. You don't need to use kfmclient if you don't want to. You can use > tkdesk or X-Plorer or whatever you want to browse direct

Re: Getting KDE up and running.

1999-01-12 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 11 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Put startkde in the first line of /etc/X11/window-managers. > > This just flat out doesn't work. I get my kdm window, log in, and then it > looks like kdm shuts down and restarts - I get a flash of windows and

Re: Getting KDE up and running.

1999-01-12 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 1/10/99 11:16:54 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > That is a good point - but is there another way to do it? I could set up a > > start-kdm line in config, but wouldn't that also get overridden? > > No. Your config files are not overwritten. That t

Re: Getting KDE up and running.

1999-01-11 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 11 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Remember that if you ever upgrade your xbase package (planning on moving > > to slink when it comes out?) that it will blow away kdm to replace it with > > the new version of xdm. > > > > That is a good poin

Re: Getting KDE up and running.

1999-01-11 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 1/10/99 10:47:00 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > 1) Renamed /user/X11/bin/xdm to old.xdm and created a link from > > /usr/local/kde/bin/kdm to xdm in it's place. According to the KDE docs, > this > > is no problem - and in practice, it works like a ch

Re: Getting KDE up and running.

1999-01-11 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 10 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1) Renamed /user/X11/bin/xdm to old.xdm and created a link from > /usr/local/kde/bin/kdm to xdm in it's place. According to the KDE docs, this > is no problem - and in practice, it works like a champ. Remember tha

Getting KDE up and running.

1999-01-11 Thread MallarJ
Well, thought I'd put this up for anyone else running through what I had to go through to get my KDE running. I compiled my KDE, and it didn't create any start up files. The docs said to run startx and then startkde, but I wanted everything up when I booted my system up. So, how did I do it? PS

getting KDE packages?

1998-10-09 Thread Vincent Murphy
Given that KDE is no longer available from the debian ftp archive, where should one go to get good packages for hamm/slink? The packages on ftp.kde.org seem to be for bo, which presumably means libc5. --vinny