[KLUG Members] two part new desktop question

[Peter Buxton]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 03:11:20PM -0500, Richard Harding was only escaped
   alone to tell thee:

> I tried out the new beta installer which detected my hardware and ran 
> MUCH smoother than the woody install I was trying. So this installed 
> Sarge. I am trying to get KDE going but I am getting a mess of errors 
> from apt.

I've not tried the new installer.

> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.

Possible, but see below.

> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> that package should be filed.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:

Big question: what package or metapackage (a dummy package whose only
function is to depend on and install other packages) failed to install?

> This is followed by a whole series of just about every KDE package out 
> there. I have added the KDE site to my sources 
> (download.kde.org/stable/3.1.4/Debian) and I am still having these 
> problems. Any ideas? In the meantime I do have WindowMaker running on it.

Don't add the KDE package site. Debian carries 3.1.3 KDE itself.


deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US sid/non-US main contrib non-free

Adding the KDE site as well may only cause problems. While I can't claim
that a fresh install of Debian's KDE packages won't run into dependency
problems, as I already have it installed, my current installation is
working fine.

> Any suggestions for IM clients out there?

bitlbee is a neat package that presents an IRC server view to you,
running bitchx or XChat, and integrates your several IM accounts on the
other. If you use IRC, it's one less app to run.

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