Hi

What should my sources.list look like if I want to install the lastest KDE and which packages must I install with apt-get ?

My distro has been upgraded to Sarge

Thanks

By latest KDE do you mean what's in CVS? Check apt-get.org for Sarge KDE packages. They'll have something for you hopefully.

I would also very much like to know how one installs KDE using apt-get. The sarge install includes something called "desktop" in tasksel but I don't want everything . . . . I just want KDE, please.

I have been trying, unsuccessfully, for this last week to install KDE using apt-get tools like Aptitude as well as apt-get and it will not install. There are so many broken packages with unmet dependencies that it will not install even though I am using the exact files listed on the kde.org web site. I even added ftp://download.kde.org to my sources.list and tried commenting out everything else, but all to no avail.

I read about CVS, went to a link for "newbies" that described a torturous process for installing KDE using CVS and something about it taking two weeks to make it work . . . .

There's got to be a better way! What am I missing?


Later in the evening I found this:
http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?DebianKDE

Going to give it a try tomorrow.

Well, it is now tomorrow and the instructions given on the URL above said to apt-get install kde-core which doesn't exist . . . .
How very frustrating!

To install Kde you can add the following sources to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:

deb http://tux.cprm.net/debian/non-US unstable non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free
deb http://tux.cprm.net/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib

From there you get KDE 3.1.4. And the commands to install are simply:

apt-get update
apt-get install kde

that should take care of it all.

Hope that helps,
NilB