[kde-linux] Need Help installing KDE on Debian

[Andrew Walbran]

On Friday 13 October 2006 5:38 pm, Mark Phillips wrote:
> I have Sarge installed and would like to install kde. However, the kde
> package seems to be broken (as well as the gnome package).
>
> These appear to be my options....
>
> 1. Install from source. But then I loose the advantage of apt-get upgrade
>
> 2. Upgrade to testing - that kde package seems to be OK. I really don't
> want to upgrade unless I have to.
>
> 3. Install by hand? I tried taking all the dependencies from the kde
> package page, and then added the next broken parts, and continued for a
> couple of layers, but ended up with a lot of dependency problems.
>
> Is there another way to get KDE installed on Sarge?
I have installed sarge on several machines, and had no problems installing 
KDE.

What exactly seems to be broken? Have you run 'aptitude update' (or 'apt-get 
update') recently?

By the way, if this is just a personal machine I would suggest either 
upgrading to etch (testing) or using Kubuntu instead, as sarge is rather out 
of date. OTOH, I have heard that etch is supposed be becoming stable at the 
end of this year.

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Andrew Walbran
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