On Tuesday 01 July 2003 08:51, Dan Zlotnikov wrote: > First of all, D'oh! 2.4.19, of course. Typoed. > > On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Ray Olszewski wrote: > > I don't run either KDE or Gnome here, so I can help only a little with > > the DEbian parts. > > > > 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.
For what it's worth, I installed kdebase a week or so ago. And bingo!, without so much as asking me, KDE took over. Next time I logged in my screen looked like a jukebox. (Sorry to any who *like* KDE's default settings :). (About two weeks ago I installed Debian 3.0, and somehow (blame Debian's installer! :) kdebase got missed out. I had all the other KDE apps like Kmail etc, though I 'always' run Gnome as a desktop. But I noticed that Kaddressbook was missing, so I installed kdebase (using kpackage as the installer). I guess, if you're running Gnome, you may find Gnome-apt will do it, though I've never tried it. Anyway, there are a number of associated KDE packages which you might want to install. I would hope Gnome-apt would prompt for or let you search for any such packages. The way to swap from one to the other, I found, is to make /etc/alternatives/x-session-manager a symlink to either /usr/bin/kde2 or /usr/bin/gnome-session. ln -s /usr/bin/gnome-session /etc/alternatives/x-session-manager Well, it worked for me anyway. cr ... very much a Debian newbie - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
