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    KDE on Debian Sarge

    Simple question this time: can you run KDE on Debian Sarge (Release Candidate 2)?

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    of course you can

    did you even look on kde.org ?
    there are packages for most distros on it.

    the fact that KDE is pretty much used exclusivly on linux suggests that a linux distro would be able to run it
    It is Inevitable.....


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    Yes you can, you're going to have to make it work however.
    To err is human. To really foul things up ... you need a computer.

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    I've found debs for it all be it alpha and kde 3.3.1 not 3.3.2, althought what do you expect from a beta release

    You could always build it from source, it looks like most of the deps are there
    It is Inevitable.....


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    eh?


    apt-get install kde

    job jobbed

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    if you _REALLY_ can't cope with the 3.2 in sarge, then you can install 3.3 from sid (unstable) fairly easily

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    Quote Originally Posted by directhex
    eh?


    apt-get install kde

    job jobbed
    That's what I thought, but some pages on the internet said that it wasn;t currently supported.

    Pah, I'll just try it tomorrow and see what happens!
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    I know a lot of people who have complained it's not as simple as that, but just like everthing else, it should work.
    To err is human. To really foul things up ... you need a computer.

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    well apt-get install kde worked here, installs 3.2.2

    if you want 3.3, you need unstable sources - the procedure to set unstable sources as secondary importance is:

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    echo 'APT::Default-Release "testing";' >> /etc/apt/apt.conf
    echo 'deb http://the.earth.li/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
    echo 'deb-src http://the.earth.li/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
    aptitude update
    aptitude install -t unstable kde
    the default will be -t testing (i.e. sarge), with -t unstable as a command line option to get something from the unstable debian, if you want it. be careful mixing like this, though!
    Last edited by directhex; 19-12-2004 at 10:06 PM.

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    Okay, just installed Debian and KDE, and everything is fine. Thanks for the Open Source articles on the main site, directhex!
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    no porblem, glad they were helpful

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