Re: what happened to KDE?

[Mal Beaton]

om Kuiper wrote:
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 18:21:45 -0400
From: Alex Derkach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Tom Kuiper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: what happened to KDE?
...
Why not just make a new /etc/gdm/Sessions/KDE file?
I've included mine for reference.

That's what I did the last time this happened, but it is no longer an option.
The only kde related command on my system now is /usr/bin/kdetrayproxy
I think the Debian developers have made some policy decision without
announcing it.
Cheers
Tom
* Tom Kuiper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 17:40:34 -0400
From: Chris Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: what happened to KDE?
..
On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 21:32:37 UTC
Tom Kuiper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I few hours ago I upgraded the "unstable" version (2.4.20 kernel) with
'dselect' and found that a KDE log-in session was no longer an option.
I don't know what you mean by "no longer an option."  You tried to start
up KDE but it crashed?  Your display manager no longer gives you a KDE
choice in some menu?  KDE was de-installed?
Aplogies for my vagueness.  What I meant was that KDE is no longer listed
as a session option in gdm log-in window. 

When I accepted the default recommended upgrades, many (but not all)?kde
packages were removed.

I've tried to force it back in but all that did was mess up Gnome a
little. For example, the upper task bar is gone and the lower is empty. 
I can probably fix that, but I really want KDE back.  Does anyone have
any suggestions?
I don't know what you mean by "force it back".  You tried to re-install
KDE by hand?  You tried to create a new menu entry in a display manager
for KDE?  
I used dselect to select the missing KDE packages.  Creating a menu entry
requires an appropriate entry in /etc/gdm/Sessions for kde, but there isn't
one anymore.
...
#!/bin/sh
#
# /etc/gdm/Sessions/KDE
#
# global KDE session file, used by gdm
exec /etc/X11/Xsession /usr/bin/startkde



Same situation here
installing debian on imac for a friend
dist upgrade with kde
lost kde
sudo apt-get install kde
he following packages have unmet dependencies:
  kde: Depends: kde-core but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: kde-amusements but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: kdeaddons but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: kdeadmin but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: kdeartwork but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: kdegraphics but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: kdemultimedia but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: kdenetwork but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: kdepim but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: kdeutils but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: quanta but it is not going to be installed

I have seen this once before about 6 or so months ago but was rectified 
very quickly

I have checked bugs.debian.org but cant identify anything. My work mate 
is looking into it today


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