Re: KDE Packagers - What's the plan/roadmap/future timescale?
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 12:17:19PM +1100, Ben Burton wrote: I'd absolutely advise using all of the sid KDE packages, even if you're on a woody system - this is just based on watching bug reports come in from people using straight woody or using some woody KDE packages with some sid KDE packages. But then again, I'm not sure how many other sid packages will be dragged in by asking for sid's KDE. This advice should also be taken with a grain of salt because I haven't tested woody at all myself. Does someone know from experience how well this would work? The most straightforward way to accomplish it? Or is it so messy that the sane thing to do - for someone who wants a rock-stable OS but at the same time wants to play with bleeding edge applications - is forget the package approach and compile? Whit
Re: And uglier
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 12:12:19AM -0300, Rogerio Brito wrote: I had this happen to me in a distant past. Perhaps my solution also applies to your case? It was to just reinstall xfonts-base (apt-get --reinstall install xfonts-base). Cross your fingers. Hope this helps, Roger... Thanks, that might have done it, but meanwhile I was pissed enough to reinstall with Progeny, which does a perfect job setting up X without even asking about hardware - but unfortunately it comes up in Gnome and they only have KDE 2.0. Nothing against Gnome, just not what I'm after. So the next experiment is whether the unofficial Potato KDE 2.1.1 will install on Progeny nicely Am I having fun yet?? Whit
potato kde2 install dependency: libkmid
A problem today - wasn't a problem last week. Not a file available as a standard potato file. Also, since it's for midi, and some of us not only don't have midi support but have a visceral hatred of midi ... what the heck is kde doing demanding it? Never mind, but if install task-kde is going to work again on potato this library needs to be provided in potato-usable form. Whit PS: This is seriously foobared. Pardon my French, but the unstable version of that midi library does _not_ install on Potato.
It's getting even uglier
Okay, so I try to install kde2 onto Potato by dselect, select everything to do with kde, it appears to install (except for some reason libssh096 is currently not available on non-us), but startx kde2 does not do more than start an X screen with a single terminal in the corner and some unstable cursor control. If someone can suggest how to overcome this, it would save me from the wrath of my girlfriend, whose system is disabled because of this (she wanted Konqueror). The last couple of Potato-KDE2 installs I did went so damn smoothly Whit
And uglier
Since Potato wasn't happy on the target system, what the hey, went to upgrade it to Woody and xfree4. Make the change in sources, run apt-get, only gets half-way there, run dselect, not much better, run dselect and get fvwm, suddenly it decides it's really going to upgrade a bunch of stuff. It was after that I added xfree4, which seems to go okay, but now there's not even startx on the system. Okay, found and installed the package with startx, now it chokes because it can't find the 'fixed' font. And anXious just exits quickly ... eh, where are the alternatives to get X actually configured here? I like Debian based on other experiences, but this should not be such a bear, just getting a working install on a reasonably standard system that took Mandrake just fine a year ago (despite which I've no fondness for Mandrake - it was just a way to test and learn what was wrong with it). Can someone recommend a clear route to get Woody up with xfree4 and kde2? I can't waste another day on this, but would be happy to wipe and spend another couple of hours on it if I thought that would result in the system being up and clean. Thanks, Whit
