Stephen Cradock wrote:
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But that got me another step forward - I'm writing this in Mozilla with an upgraded XFree86 - 4.3.0, and everything else that goes with it....
EXCEPT - I lost kdm along the way - debconf just ripped it out, along with all the neat programs that go with it, like Konqueror, Kwrite, - all the Ks. Has it been dropped from the unstable versions? It seems that I still have kde, but I'm not sure, as I chose xdm for the desktop manager, and it's not offering me kde. The Choose a Desktop Manager dialog only offered me the choice of gdm and xdm, otherwise I'ld have picked kdm.
Unstable is so-named because the collection of software packages in it are constantly in flux, as developers tweak this app here, add that app there, remove this other app yonder, etc. As these new, improved, more broken, less functional, more functional packages make it into sid (unstable), there's plenty of opportunity for dependencies to get mangled. The result is that sometimes when you go to upgrade your sid system, a new dependency has an unforeseen consequence of wanting to remove half your system. The wise sysadmin will watch for such things when he upgrades his system, and if anything looks scary, he'll hold off on the upgrade for a day or two, by which time the boo-boo is usually ironed out.
My guess is that you upgraded during one of these boo-boo times, and all your KDE stuff got removed.
Just reinstall it with "apt-get install kde". Or you can reinstall individual KDE packages, like "apt-get install kdm" (which will ask which ?dm you want to use, at which time you can choose kdm again).
If the system won't let you install KDE, you might want to wait a day or two and try again, using something else in the meantime.
-- Kent
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