Aaron Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Someone asked, so here's how I transmuted my version of CorelOS to
> more or less "pure" debian. Though this worked for me, it might be a
> good idea to read any comments made on this post before doing this,
> since IANAG (i am not a guru)
>
> 1. Establish a net connection, if it's not already up. (i.e., so you
> can ftp)
> 2. If you're at not at the command line, go there. Log out of the
> window manager, and press Ctrl-Alt-F2; you should go from the KDE
> login screen to a command line login prompt. Log in as root.
> 3. Remove all packages with the string "corel" in them. You can get
> a list of these by issuing the command: [1]
> dpkg --get-selection | grep corel
> You'll get two columns; the names of the packages you want to
> remove will be in the left column. Remove them with the following
> command, as root:
> apt-get remove pkg1 pkg2 ...
> where the pkgN's are the names of what you're removing.
You might as well purge and let the shell do the hard work:
apt-get --purge remove `dpkg --get-selection | grep corel | awk '{print $1}'`
or something similar.
> 4. Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point to where the new packages are
> located. If you're not sure, I recommend commmenting out all the
> lines in there (put a '#' as the first char of the line), then add
> this line:
> deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian frozen main contrib non-free
> This will upgrade your system to potato, Debian's 'frozen'
> release. CorelOS is based on slink, Debian's 'stable' release.
> If you'd rather update to the latest version of slink, replace the
> word 'frozen' with 'stable' in the line above. You can then
> upgrade to frozen from there if you like. I just went straight to
> frozen with no problems, but ymmv.
> 5. As root type:
> apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
> Your quasi-debian system will start downloading stuff and asking
> you questions as it installs and configures packages. It may have
> to download a lot of stuff, especially if you're upgrading to
> frozen.
> 6. KDE is now gone (CorelOS comes with a Corelized version of KDE,
> which you removed a few steps ago). In its stead, I installed
> gnome. [1] Install the necessary gnome stuff with this command:
> apt-get install gdm gnome-bin gnome-panel gnome-panel-data
> gnome-core
> (that's one long line).
>
> That should be it. 'gdm' is the name of the program that provides the
> nice graphical login. If it doesn't automatically start, start it by
> typing as root
> /etc/init.d/gdm start
>
> [1] I don't know how to install the non-Corel KDE; if
> you want that instead, please search the list archives.
> (http://lists.debian.org/#search -- just search the debian-user
> list, ignore the 1.4e12 other lists)
Put this in /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato kde
If you are looking for a i18n version targeted at Japanese users
deb http://ftp.kde.gr.jp/kde/stable/1.1.2/distribution/deb potato kde
but beware that kdm and `Lock Screen' were broken last time I checked.
--
Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development
