On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Matt Buckland wrote:
> I am not completely new to Linux but have not previously used Debian. > It's taken me about three days to get X working but now that's > complete I need to get KDE working. > > When I try installing the deb files I get hundreds of dependancy > problems that cannot, according to apt-get be resolved! It's all quite > confusing to me, but apt-get is telling me that it has found the > package onthe database but it is not available. What does that mean > and how can I get the package if it is not available? > > I have also tried installing qt-2.3.1 with no success. After running > ./configure and finding out what I have to do to set the QTDIR, > editing the .profile file and adding the necessary lines, logging in > again and re-reunning it tells me exactly the same thing and that I > should check the INSTALL file. However, I have done this and it didn't > work. What am I supposed to do now? > > Any advice would be more than greatly appreciated as I am currently sat in > front of Windows wanting desparately to have a graphical interface for my > Debian installation. If you are posting to linux.debian.user, probably few people are seeing your post. Please post directly to the debian-user mailing list. As regards your question, can you provide details about what you did to try to install kde? I installed kde on my system by adding deb http://kde.debian.net potato main crypto optional to my sources.list, and doing apt-get install konqueror (I wanted konqueror) and I got kde (2.1.1) as a byproduct, with almost no effort. Once I had it, I decided to use it. I'd used it previously on SuSE. If you want kde it might be a good idea to get a minimal install going first. (Ie., don't try to download everything at once.) This certainly shouldn't involve hundreds of packages. I certainly did (almost) no manual intervention, just some slight tweaking of kdm so it would show kde as a login option. This is for potato (2.2r3) but you don't say what version you're using. This would certainly be relevant. I'm ccing this to debian-user so hopefully other people will see your post. Sincerely, Faheem Mitha.
