I simply had my sources.list point to woody and then

apt-get update
apt-get install task-koffice

That grabbed all of kdebase, konqueror, koffice and all the libs 
associated with those packages.
If you want the multimedia stuff, you can throw in an

apt-get install kdemultimedia

Works great!

On 1 Nov 00, at 23:12, Mircea Luca wrote:

> "Calvin L. Harris" wrote:
> 
> > Second question, has anyone been able to upgrade from KDE 1.42 to KDE 2.0?
> > 
> yeap,I just modified /etc/apt/sources.list to point to woody ,
> 
> apt-get update
> apt-cache search task-kde
> apt-get install task-kde task-kdegames task....all of the above results
> 
> reboot
> 
> logged in as root at a console (for example CTRL ALT F2)
> cd /etc/gdm/Sessions
> ln Debian kde2
> (got this from the list didn't have time to investigate why,it just
> works
> you may want to read the archives just in case I remembered it wrong)
> Then you can choose session kde2 in gdm
> 
> I still left my sources pointing to woody and everything still works
> just fine.I didn't install anything after upgrading to kde2 from woody
> so
> no clue as of now when it's gonna break if I install anything else since
> woody is unstable.
> 
> They may be a better way,you may want to check
> http://kde.tdyc.com/debian
> for potato packages ,but when I did it the site was down since a lot of
> people pissed off the maintainer with stupid questions and rantings.:-(
> Maybe it's up again for kde2 and potato.
> 
> Anyway you may want to wait a few days for a better reply (one without
> using woody for packages) but for me it was time anyway to switch to
> woody.
> 
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