mike ledoux wrote:
>
> On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Sean Goodell wrote:
>
> >I am unhappy with Redhat 7 and would like to give Debian a try on one of my
> >machines after hearing many of you rave about its performance. One question
> >I have is can I run KDE? According to the Debian website KDE is not
> >included with the distribution. If this is a silly question please bear
> >with me as I continue to learn Linux.
>
> KDE wasn't included in potato, but that doesn't mean you can't install
> it yourself. The only reason it wasn't included was due to KDE's
> 'non-free' status at the time.
Slight correction - KDE was free, as was QT. However, the QPL
conflicts/conflicted with the KDE GPL, such that the combination was
non-distributable. All corrected by QT going GPL.
>
> That said, KDE2 is included in woody. 'apt-get install task-kde'
> should do the trick, provided you have your apt sources configured
> properly.
>
Even though I use GNOME, I did the above to get the KDE libs, so I
could install some KDE apps I wanted to use (actually, I installed the
apps, and they did the above in the dependencies).
jeff
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jeff smith
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