> you were right when you used dselect to install task-kde. So I'll continue trying with dselect.
> Try something like this: > 1. Make sure that a Debian Potato KDE archive is in your sources.list file. Would that be: deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato main qt1apps optional crypto ...as David Dayan-Rosenman suggested? Or should it be fine to use "apt-cdrom add" to add the CD I burned with the KDE packages I downloaded on it? > 2. Make sure dselect is using the apt access method. Check. I take it that I should also Update? > 3. Select task KDE and accept all the resulting recommendations by pressing > return on the next screen. You may have to do this several times as each time > you accept one lot of files it can give rise to more dependencies. Check. > 4. Using dselect make sure KDM is selected as a desktop login manager. Do you mean that I should make sure that kdm is selected for installation? It is. > 5. Install it all. Check. > 6. Reboot, which should lead you to the KDM login screen. It dosn't. No trace of kdm, startkde or any other KDE binary. There's a lot of documentation installed though, but reading about KDE is far from as exciting as running the thing. > 7. Select a user enter the password and select KDE2 as the session type. Since kdm is not startet I can not do that. Hmm... I seriously suspect that what I have on my CD is not everything needed to install KDE. > Of course you shouldn't need to reboot and there must be other ways of > starting KDM, but this should work. I'll be happy just getting KDE in the air somehow. I can always try to tune/tweak the system afterwards. A couple of things though. It sounds like the files I already downloaded were not the full set of files needed to install KDE. If the http://-thingy-line is the right thing to put in my sources.list then it sounds like I need to open an Internet connection before installing and that dselect will pull the needed files from the Internet. Is that correct? I have already downloaded 171 files. It took about 5 hours. I thought they were the full set of files needed, but it sounds like they were not. I have burned them on a CD. Is there any way I can tell Debian to _not_ download those files again? Five hours is a long time. Also I will want to install KDE on other Debian 2.2r3 computers, some of which have no Internet connection and no kind of network connection. Is there any way I can make a usable KDE installation CD out of whatever dselect downloads for my KDE installation? Thanks for the help so far :o) Johnny :o) > On Saturday 28 July 2001 3:06 pm, Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote: > > 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)
