Actually, they've fixed the packages today (version 2 now). Just installed. Seems to be OK, except that the kdm startup script is incompatible with slink (it wants the start-kdm line /etc/X11/options file, which is absent in slink). So I've copied from xdm and modified it.
Sergey. On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 12:33:47PM -0400, Pablo Lorenzzoni wrote: > > Hi friends! > > > > This is the first time I write here. Sorry for it is a problem that > > bring me to write this one, but... Debian life is Debian life... > > I?ve installed Debian 2.0 about a month ago, and I love it. It is > > very much better than Slackware that I ran before, or RH that I tried before > > Debian. > > I?ve installed Gnome (0.30) which I get from ftp.gnome.org in .deb > > format. It worked great, but it was not KDE (which I love), so I decided to > > install KDE. > > I downloaded KDE 1.1 from ftp.varesearch.com which I get in .deb > > format too. When trying to install (dpkg -i kdelibs2g_1......) it returns a > > message that sounds like "subprocess: gzip -dc: it isn?t in gzip format" or > > something like that, and quit. > > Can someone help me? > > > > []s, TIA > > > > Pablo Lorenzzoni > > > > ____________________________________________________________________ > > Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.amexmail.com/?A=1 > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > Same problem happened to me. I downloaded it from ftp.varesearch.com and > ftp.kde.org. The MD5 sums computed OK too. Searching through the kde mailing > list archives, I saw one other person with the same error message. Perhaps > someone who is 'in the know' about KDE in .deb format could reply? > -- > Stephen Pitts > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > webmaster - http://www.mschess.org >