[kde-linux] Lost /etc/init.d/kdm

[Kevin Krammer]

On Thursday 24 May 2007, David Baron wrote:
> This was from an old Debian installation superceded by a konstruct build
> when kde was not usable in Sid. Some cleanup script took off xdm and the
> kdm init with it. I probably modified that to point to the konstructed kdm.
>
> I can easily enough simply run kdm from my own catchall-looseends script I
> placed in /etc/init.d etc. But this would not service the pid file or shut
> it down correctly. Where might I get an init.d script without installing
> kdm from Debian?

You can tell aptitude to just download the package and then extract it

% aptitude -d install kdm
(-d meaning "just download")

Then get the .deb from /var/cache/apt/archives and extract it with
% dpkg -x packagefile

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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