Re: KDE2 install

2001-02-26 Thread Rob VanFleet
As I understand it, security.debian.org is still useful if you're running testing, since someone running testing still has some packages from potato. Unstable gets security fixes simply from regular upgrades while those using testing would normally have to wait for the packages to stabalize

Re: KDE2 install

2001-02-26 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 04:26:32PM -0800, John Mautz wrote: As pointed out by hogan, there is no security.debian.org for testing/woody. Yes, but those running testing still have a sizable portion of packages from stable/potato that security.debian.org is needed to update. -Rob

Re: KDE2 install - Fixed + ?

2001-02-26 Thread John Mautz
All thanks for the help. I got it working by adding the kde.tdyc.com/pub/dke and doing the following: apt-get update apt-get install kdebase I had to issue a dpkg --configure -a as I got a segfalt. But it must have recoverd correctly as I'm using Netscape under KDE to send this. :) My

KDE2 install

2001-02-25 Thread John Mautz
I have a woody system running xfree 4.0.2 and want to give KDE a try but can't find the KDE package. I checked the archives and tried 'apt-get install task-kde' but I get the following message: Package task-kde has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the

Re: KDE2 install

2001-02-25 Thread John Griffiths
I figure I need to add the a location to sources.list but don't know which site to add. (Currently apt-get is looking in: ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main non-free contrib ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main non-free contrib for gods sake get ftp://security.debian.org/debian

Re: KDE2 install

2001-02-25 Thread Daniel Jones
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 14:50:31 -0800, John Mautz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a woody system running xfree 4.0.2 and want to give KDE a try but can't find the KDE package. I checked the archives and tried 'apt-get install task-kde' but I get the following message: Package task-kde has no

Re: KDE2 install

2001-02-25 Thread hogan
ftp://security.debian.org/debian testing main non-free contrib I thought security only had stable? Took a peek... Seems it does have more.. HOWEVER.. There is no ftp://security.debian.org/debian There is ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security potato|sid|slink|stable There is

Re: KDE2 install

2001-02-25 Thread John Mautz
Okay, I added - Add: ftp://kde.tdyc.com/pub/kde potato main crypto optional qt1apps And now I get a message stating that task-kde depends on kview and is not going to be installed. So, I did an ap-get install kview and kview depends on tetex-lib (= 1.0.6-7). Okay, I try an apt-get

Re: KDE2 install

2001-02-25 Thread Francois Gouget
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Daniel Jones wrote: [...] And, as has already been pointed out, get security.debian.org added as well. Yes, except that the given line was wrong and that, AFAIK, there is no security updates for testing anyway! -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]

kde2 install help

2000-12-30 Thread Trevor Ramoutar
I did an install of Stormix and chose kde as my default windowmanger. Then I added: deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato main to my sources.list. I added apt-get update and apt-get install task-kde it pulled down all the packages. So now my question is this, how do I start kde2? Everytime I type

KDE2 install steps

2000-11-01 Thread Joel Dinel
So I've downloaded all of KDE2's .deb files instead of fiddling around with sources.list. Now, what's the order or the main package to install first? A mere dpkg -i *.deb reports a boatload of dependencies problems... Thanks ! -- Joel Dinel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: KDE2 install steps

2000-11-01 Thread Andrew Dixon
Joel Dinel wrote: So I've downloaded all of KDE2's .deb files instead of fiddling around with sources.list. trust me, it's worth it to fiddle around with the sources.list (shouldn't be too hard just keep at it untill it works, you'll get it) because after that's done you just type: