fellow debians:. i know this email probably belongs to the debian-kde list, so do excuse me for posting it here.
i ventured into debian assuming that i'd be able to use both gnome and kde on debian. i found out that kde wasn't on the potato distribution. i tried to convert redhat 6.2's kde rpms to .deb. i stumbled on the advice somewhere in dselect to use alien to convert rpm to .deb, rather than use rpm to install directly. well, i did that and successfully alien-ed the kde .rpms to .debs. however, i faced some hurdles subsequently. 1. the startkde script stumbled during startx, and errored me. on examining the startkde script a comment inside said the script was optimised for redhat. Does anyone know where i can find a debianised startkde script, or point me the way to originate one myself. all workarounds are welcome. 2. i'm a little stumped here. the kde site's advice on setup says that the kde files will be located in /opt/kde. when i installed the .debs they didn't create a directory of that name. so the kde site's advice APPARENTLY does not work for debian. (i assume that dselect's install would have created the directory, but it had copied the files to some other directory.) any enlightenment will help. thanks, people. ram linux newbie
