Can I have a little KDE on my potato

[Blake Barnett]

We haven't ran potato (especially on desktops) for at least 6 months.


On Sat, 2001-12-29 at 11:51, K.L.Smith wrote:
> Hi Marc,
> 
> I did the apt-get install task-kde and a beta version installed
> complete with a warning that I would experience some crashes.
> Not what I would like to do.
> 
> I recently installed Mandrake and literally drooled over
> KDE/Koffice...ETC.  It has been a while since I last installed
> KDE and it has really improved.
> 
> My Favorite distro is Debian and would like to stay with it.  As
> an added incentive my employer likes Debian also.
> 
> So I guess I will have to upgrade to Woody.
> 
> Any other choice?
> 
> Thanks,
> Keith
> 
> 
> 
> -------------------------------------------------
> Message: 10
> Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 21:27:37 -0700 (MST)
> From: Marc Chung <mchung@asu.edu>
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: Can I have a little KDE on my potato
> Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> 
> try issuing the following line:
> 
> $ apt-get install task-kde
> 
> This worked during 2.1 dev process, and might have changed since.
> You
> might also want to direct your question to the debian-kde list.
> 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/
> 
> --
> Marc Chung
> mchung@asu.edu
> 
> 
> On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Linux wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I installed the Debian 2.2r2 (potato) basic system.
> >
> > I wanted to install KDE...KOffice...ETC.  So I installed
> > task-x-window-system-core, xf86setup, xserver-vga16.
> >
> > I added the line "deb http://kde.tdyc.com/ stable kde2" as per
> >
> http://www.kde.org/documentation/userguide/installing-debian.html
> > and did the update in hopes I could install KDE.
> >
> > I then issued the command "apt-get install kdebase" per the
> > instructions to only receive an error - dependents
> > kdebase-libs....broken package.
> >
> > Anybody running KDE, KOffice, KMail...ETC on Potato?  If so how
> > do I do it w/o RPM's, TAR's....?
> >
> > Thanks a bunch,
> > Keith
> > --------------------------------
> > Just Say NO To M$
> > --------------------------------
> > Linux - Just Do It!
> > --------------------------------
> -------------------------------------------
> 
> In Peace,
> Keith Smith
> --------------------------------
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