Assuming you are using the apt-* tools for package management, you probably want to apt-get install kdebase . (At least this is right for Sid; Woody is probably the same in this respect.) If its installer is any good, it will either ask appropriate questions to get you to replace Gnome with KDE, or it will do so without asking (less likely but possible). Once the base stuff is installed, you'll need to install appropriate specific applications for kde.
This procedure will leave all the Gnome and Sawfish stuff on you hard disk (good thing too, since you are quite likely to be running apps that use the GTK libraries), but will probably work to get rid of them as X defaults. If not, once you have the Debian part handled, anyone who knows Gnome and KDE should be able to help you with further specifics.
BTW, I really hope you are not running kernel 2.4.1 ... you are more likely to be running 2.4.19 or 2.4.20, if your installation is reasonably current and you remembered to update from the limited installer kernel.
At 06:55 PM 6/30/2003 +0200, Flemming Greve Skovengaard wrote:
Dan Zlotnikov wrote:[...]Hello everyone, and good morning where appropriate. I'm currently running GNOME/Sawfish, but have decided to switch to KDE. This is proving to be somewhat beyond me. Can anyone point me in the right direction with some really short steps and using two-syllable words at most? Running Debian/Woody kernel 2.4.1 Thanks! Dan
If you already have KDE installed you can run 'xwmconfig'. You can now choose xinitrc.kde (if you have KDE installed). If you don't have KDE installed, I can't help (not yet anyway).
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