Hello, I really need help now.
I am trying to install KDE 2.1.1 on Debian 2.2r3 (Potato). I can not get it installed. I'm stuck now. Can someone please help? My Potato is freshly installed on a blank computer. It is all standard from the official Debian 2.2r3 CD set. It contains the Debian base, the task-x-window-core, and the correct x-server for my cideo card. Nothing else. That is the starting point for my KDE installation. This is what I have tried: I downloaded a bunch of .deb packages from one of the places linked to from the KDE installation page. It should be the correct set of packages. I cross checked with some of the other mirrors, that the package sets were identical. I burned the packages on a CD in the directory dists/stable/main/binary-i386. That is the path to all the packages as listed in the Packages.gz file. I added the CD to sources.list using apt-cdrom add. I ran apt-get update. Then I have tried these differet ways of installation: dpkg -i <package> ...as outlined in the installation guide on the KDE homepage. All I get are loads of missing dependencies. I then searched this list and recognised the following as possible solutions to my problem: apt-get install kdelibs3 (suggested in http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde-0105/msg00140.html) It didn't work. apt-get install task-kde kdebase (suggested in http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde-0104/msg00059.html) It didn't work. apt-get install kdelibs3 kdebase-libs (suggested in http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde-0104/msg00060.html) It didn't work. I tried installing task-kde using dselect. It said there were inconsistencies and asked me to sort them out. I used the suggested solution (I believe dselect makes a working selection for you, right?) Something installed, but not what was needed. startx startkde didn't work. (In fact startkde has not been installed - it is nowhere on my system). Now I have reached the point where I can say only: Help! Please do not hesitate to ask for details. Best regards Johnny :o)
