[techtalk] Debian
Jen Hamilton
jhamilto at n2h2.com
Fri Mar 9 14:46:02 EST 2001
The only thing I know about apt-get is that it's a wrapper for
dselect. I'd suggest using dselect, as it may give you more control
(a.k.a. more explicit error messages) over installs. dselect is a little
confusing at first, but once you get the hang of it...
In any case, here's a quick tutorial:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/dselect-beginner.html
Jen
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Rachel Andrew wrote:
> Hi
>
>
> > Two important things -- what distribution of Debian are you using,
> >and what version of KDE do you want? I'd recommend going for KDE 2
> >over KDE 1.x. On my system, I installed KDE 2 onto my
> >recently-upgraded potato. /etc/apt/sources.list should contain:
> >
> >deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato main crypto kde2 qt1apps optional
>
>
> I tried this, I had tried this to different locations last night and it
> just says file not found, my connection to the net is fine
>
> > Once you've gotten all the packages, add startkde to your
> >.xsession and remove any other window managers (assuming you're not
> >doing that funky WindowMaker/KDE mix thing) if you're using xdm to
> >start X. Otherwise, just invoke KDE manually when you start X.
>
> now you have lost me... i have always just installed kde with my redhat
> install and it has just worked... I don't even know that I have x installed
> on this or anything, the NT disk looks more tempting by the minute it has
> to be said!!
>
>
> Rachel Andrew
> http://www.rachelandrew.co.uk
> i know there is strength in the differences between us and i know there is
> comfort where we overlap - ani difranco
>
>
>
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