Phillip Deackes wrote: > > John McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have been using Storm Linux, but am tired of KDE. > > > > I installed potato, and the helix-gnome, as well as some of the window > > managers. > > On my Storm (Potato) system Helix Gnome wouldn't install because it > demanded some more recent packages. > > I did 'apt-get update' then 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. My > /etc/apt/sources.list looks like this: > > deb ftp://unix.hensa.ac.uk:/mirrors/debian woody main contrib non-free > deb ftp://ftp.stormix.com/storm potato main > deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato kde > deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free > deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main > > The first line is a local Debian mirror - replace it with your own. > > You might need to then do 'apt-get install task-helix-core > task-helix-gnome' - this is normally only necessary to upgrade a system > which currently has gnome installed on it, you would run this line > instead of 'apt-get dist-upgrade' above. > > I would recommend moving/renaming any .gnome folders in your home > directory so you get the default Helix-Gnome desktop rather than one you > might have been trying to run before.
Phillip, Thanks, using the "task-helix..." targets fixed all my problems. I originally tried "dist-upgrade", which missed a bunch of things. --- John
