Andrew Weiss wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 3:51 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: KDE on Debian 2.2 Frozen (Potato) > > I have try to install KDE on my Debian 2.2 system and fail, I first > tried the .deb files for ftp.kde.org but they are for debian slink. > > Next I tried the RPMs of KDE this also failed with a heap of error. > > So I downloaded the tarables of it and started compiling. So far have > not been able to get it to compile. > > Anyone who has managed to get it install on Debian 2.2, can you please > > give me a hand on trying to get it installed on my system. > > Thanks > Paul > > I forced it onto potato from the storm linux distro. I did a nice > dpkg -i --force-depends <kde-package-in-question> > > This was done due to a broken dependency checker for libstdc++2.9 > which should've been libstdc++ >= 2.9 Potato uses 2.10. Many people > have told me that 2.10 shouldn't work, and maybe I had stdc++2.9 > installed from other sources, I recall trying to install it and it > conflicted with 2.10 at the time... two weeks or so later after a new > mirroring and a new CD-set I recall it went on in the oldlibs section > just fine. But on the system that didn't have it when I shoe-horned > it in and manually vi'ed the status file so they wouldn't be kicked > off at the next dselect... kfm and other kde apps worked just fine in > Windowmaker on Potato... though they look goofy in Windowmaker. All I > need is a decent filemanager and Recycle-bin in Windowmaker and I'll > have a complete environment... also WSoundserver needs to be built in > to the environment rather than run separately. > > Andrew > Epitaph for Bill Gates: "This man performed an illegal operation and > was shut down" --BBC > SGI and Motorola team up to design a new chip... the Crayola > --personal > Apple MacOS X the only UNIX where dumping cores is a good thing. > --personal > Bastille Linux - You have to run your servers in headless mode. > Curses! Curses! Scrolled Again! > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] > < /dev/null
Add the line - deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato kde contrib rkrusty to /etc/apt/sources.list run dselect and install what you want. Jonathan