On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 01:42:42PM +0800, ramsubs wrote: > fellow debians:. > > i know this email probably belongs to the debian-kde list, so do excuse me > for posting it here. > > i ventured into debian assuming that i'd be able to use both gnome and kde > on debian. i found out that kde wasn't on the potato distribution. > > i tried to convert redhat 6.2's kde rpms to .deb. i stumbled on the advice > somewhere in dselect to use alien to convert rpm to .deb, rather than use > rpm to install directly.
you don't need to reinvent the wheel. add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato main crypto then, as root, run: apt-get update apt-get install task-kde sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com