Re: trouble installing kde

2004-06-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 08:12:53PM +0200, J. Preiss wrote: > > Try something other than KDE to get started. > > > > "apt-get install icewm" > > then create/edit ~/.xinitrc and put the single line "icewm" in and then > > "startx". > > > > If that doesn't work, the problem is with X, not KDE. I'm ru

Re: trouble installing kde

2004-06-09 Thread J. Preiss
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but when you select 'graphical environment' (or > what's it called) during setup (in tasksel) Debian installs both Gnome and > KDE. > I can see we don't ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Debian doesn't want to favor anyone, so Yes, thats ok. But a checkbox would not favor something :-)

Re: trouble installing kde

2004-06-08 Thread Joost De Cock
On Tuesday 08 June 2004 15:59, J. Preiss hurled the following on the wire: > > > don't want Gnome... Now I see that it would have been easier to do it > > > all with aptitude or tasksel and then simply remove Gnome if I indeed > > > did not want it... > > > > Got it. You are right, it will do that

Re: trouble installing kde

2004-06-08 Thread J. Preiss
> Try something other than KDE to get started. > > "apt-get install icewm" > then create/edit ~/.xinitrc and put the single line "icewm" in and then > "startx". > > If that doesn't work, the problem is with X, not KDE. > > If that does work, then try installing KDE; "apt-get install kde". The probl

Re: trouble installing kde

2004-06-08 Thread J. Preiss
> > don't want Gnome... Now I see that it would have been easier to do it > > all with aptitude or tasksel and then simply remove Gnome if I indeed > > did not want it... > > Got it. You are right, it will do that.:) > You taught me something, thanks. I dont know what you both are doing all over t

Re: trouble installing kde

2004-06-08 Thread J. Preiss
> Select kdm (the above step should have asked, or you can run > "dpkg-reconfigure kdm"; sometimes I've found that you have to select a > different display manager, such as gdm, then rerun the command again and > select kdm). > > Start kdm (either by rebooting, or by running "/etc/init.d/kdm start"

Re: trouble installing kde

2004-06-07 Thread Kent West
J. Preiss wrote: Hi all, currently it seems that I have a similar problem: I wanted to have kdm as display manager (please! no hints aboutdisplay and windowmanagers, ok?). I selected it with dpkg-reconfigure kdm... and it does not work. I only can start kde by calling startx, not as runlevel def

Re: trouble installing kde

2004-06-07 Thread J. Preiss
Hi all, currently it seems that I have a similar problem: I wanted to have kdm as display manager (please! no hints aboutdisplay and windowmanagers, ok?). I selected it with dpkg-reconfigure kdm... and it does not work. I only can start kde by calling startx, not as runlevel default login. Is th

Re: trouble installing kde

2004-06-04 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Carl Fink (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 12:50:53AM -0400, Ignatz Sol wrote: > >> SOLVED! I needed to apt-get install x-window-system-core ... I think >> that the problem was trying to install kde with apt-get. I thought >> going in that "apt-get install kde" wou

Re: trouble installing kde

2004-06-04 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 12:50:53AM -0400, Ignatz Sol wrote: > SOLVED! I needed to apt-get install x-window-system-core ... I think that > the problem was trying to install kde with apt-get. I thought going in > that "apt-get install kde" would do the work for me. If "apt-get install kde" does

Re: trouble installing kde

2004-06-03 Thread Mike Chandler
On Thursday 03 June 2004 10:27 pm, Ignatz Sol wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 21:56:15 -0700, Mike Chandler > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 03 June 2004 09:50 pm, Ignatz Sol wrote: > > > On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 21:33:44 -0700, Mike Chandler > > > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Th

Re: trouble installing kde

2004-06-03 Thread Ignatz Sol
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 21:56:15 -0700, Mike Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thursday 03 June 2004 09:50 pm, Ignatz Sol wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 21:33:44 -0700, Mike Chandler > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thursday 03 June 2004 09:28 pm, Ignatz Sol wrote: > > > > On Thu,

Re: trouble installing kde

2004-06-03 Thread Mike Chandler
On Thursday 03 June 2004 09:50 pm, Ignatz Sol wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 21:33:44 -0700, Mike Chandler > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 03 June 2004 09:28 pm, Ignatz Sol wrote: > > > On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 23:04:30 -0500, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Ignatz Sol wrote: >

Re: trouble installing kde

2004-06-03 Thread Ignatz Sol
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 21:33:44 -0700, Mike Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thursday 03 June 2004 09:28 pm, Ignatz Sol wrote: > > On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 23:04:30 -0500, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ignatz Sol wrote: > > > >I'm sure that I'm just suffering from newbitis and I a

Re: trouble installing kde

2004-06-03 Thread Mike Chandler
On Thursday 03 June 2004 09:28 pm, Ignatz Sol wrote: > On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 23:04:30 -0500, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ignatz Sol wrote: > > >I'm sure that I'm just suffering from newbitis and I apologize. I'm > > >trying to install kde on sarge. I have done apt-get kde. I have the

Re: trouble installing kde

2004-06-03 Thread Ignatz Sol
On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 23:04:30 -0500, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ignatz Sol wrote: > > >I'm sure that I'm just suffering from newbitis and I apologize. I'm > >trying to install kde on sarge. I have done apt-get kde. I have the > >first 4 cds and everything installed with no problem a

Re: trouble installing kde

2004-06-03 Thread Kent West
Ignatz Sol wrote: I'm sure that I'm just suffering from newbitis and I apologize. I'm trying to install kde on sarge. I have done apt-get kde. I have the first 4 cds and everything installed with no problem and only a few items required to download. When I tried startkde I got something like:

Re: trouble installing kde

2004-06-03 Thread Ignatz Sol
> xset: unable to open display > xsetwin[??]: unable to open display > sorry, the above should read: xset: unable to open display '' xsetroot: unable to open display "" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: trouble installing kde

2004-06-03 Thread Mike Chandler
On Thursday 03 June 2004 08:44 pm, Ignatz Sol wrote: > I'm sure that I'm just suffering from newbitis and I apologize. I'm > trying to install kde on sarge. I have done apt-get kde. I have the > first 4 cds and everything installed with no problem and only a few > items required to download. Wh

trouble installing kde

2004-06-03 Thread Ignatz Sol
I'm sure that I'm just suffering from newbitis and I apologize. I'm trying to install kde on sarge. I have done apt-get kde. I have the first 4 cds and everything installed with no problem and only a few items required to download. When I tried startkde I got something like: xset: unable to op