debian newbie, how do I apt-get kde3.1?

[mcveigh]

just what is says.

I have tried adding:
deb http://wh9.tu-dresden.de/kde3/karolina ./
deb-src http://wh9.tu-dresden.de/kde3/karolina ./

to my /etc/apt/sources

then apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

what am I missing?

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

apt-cache search kde | grep 3 perhaps?

 

[mcveigh]

OK I tried apt-get install kdelibs kdebase kdeutils kdegames kdenetwork kdeadmin

this satrted the process, but I get dependency errors, I thought apt-get was supposed to get rid of dependency problems?

 

[lowtech1]

http://www.kde.org/documentation/faq/install.html

update your file: /etc/apt/sources.list http://download.kde.org/stable/3.1/Debian stable main

apt-get update

apt-get install kdebase

optional:
apt-get install task-kdenetwork
apt-get install task-kdeadmin
apt-get install task-kdetoys
apt-get install task-kdeutils
apt-get install task-kdemultimedia
apt-get install task-kdegraphics
apt-get install task-kdepim
apt-get install task-kdegames
apt-get install task-koffice
apt-get install kdebase-docs
apt-get install kdm


Or, down load the packages that you want: http://download.kde.org/stable/3.1/Debian

Then do a manual install:

dpkg -i foo.deb


Good luck!

 

[Nothinman]

In sid there's currently some problems with libfam, which so happens a good bit of KDE3 depends on, I'm not sure if it's the same with Sarge or woody.

I thought apt-get was supposed to get rid of dependency problems?

As soon as you start using 3rd party apt repositories you take your chances. I myself use them for mplayer, but KDE is a lot bigger than mplayer with a lot more interdependencies. After the transition to gcc-3.2 is finished KDE 3.1 should be officially submitted, it might be worth it just to wait until then.

 

[mcveigh]

Thanks everyone.
I got it to work by saying what the hell and did "apt-get -f install" this was suggested from one of the error messages. I have no idea why that command worked, but it did. I had to manually add kde3.1 to my GDM login though. but no biggie.

 

[lowtech1]

Originally posted by: mcveigh
Thanks everyone.
I got it to work by saying what the hell and did "apt-get -f install" this was suggested from one of the error messages. I have no idea why that command worked, but it did. I had to manually add kde3.1 to my GDM login though. but no biggie.

-f, --fix-broken
be so corrupt as to require manual intervention
(which usually means using dselect or dpkg --remove
to eliminate some of the offending packages). Use
of this option together with -m may produce an
error in some situations. Configuration Item:
APT::Get::Fix-Broken.

man apt-get