On Monday 05 November 2001 12:47, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 12:34:29PM -0500, Bob Underwood wrote: > > On Monday 05 November 2001 12:13, Laurent Rathle wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > Did anyone tried to install KDE with the metapackage kde ? I'm trying > > > to write a little tutorial for the installation of KDE 2.2.x and when I > > > installed it on my machine there was no kde metapackage and I took > > > everything from unstable package by package. So I'd like to know if I > > > put in my tutorial that people can do : > > > > > > apt-get -t unstable install kde > > > > > > if it's gonna work > > > > > > (with the good /etc/apt/preferences and /etc/apt/sources.list, for sure > > > > > > :-)) > > > > > > Thank you, > > > > There are a couple things missing in the kde metapackage that I use (like > > kmail). I did notice it appears in one of the other kde metapackages, so > > i did an apt-get -t unstable install kde kde-extras -s. The kde-extras > > wanted to change more of my system to unstable than I wanted so I backed > > out. The deps on just the kde metapackage don't appear to change > > anything other than kde packages. > > what? kmail is in the kde meta package. > > Ivan
my apologies, Ivan. You are correct; kmail is, indeed, in the kde metapackage. Now, to remember what it is that prompted me to even look at the kde-extras metapackage. bob
