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I installed Debian 6.0 (squeeze) on my desktop, but that installed GNOME by default and I wanted KDE. I searched online how to switch it to KDE but I can't seem to make sense out of the instructions.
Also, Eclipse and VirtualBox appear to not be supporting debian - at least that's what the software manager is saying. I downloaded the virtualbox package from their website but when I tried running it, I got a message that the platform is not right. It's a 32 bit machine, so I'm not sure what's going on?
Is it going to be easier to just install Gentoo? I need something that also supports NTFS as I have a couple of particions with my files from Windows.
0: As a general rule, one thread one topic (question).
1: KDE, It is NOT difficult to change window managers in Debian. I checked several including KDE, gnome, xfce4, twm.... I do not recall all of them. Simply follow follow debian way usually works.
2: Eclipse and VertualBox. Several month ago, I installed on Debian without major trouble. I just followed instruction.
3.1 Gentoo: I do not know. Try it and post answer here.
3.2 NTFS: File systems are supported by kernel. As long as you use right kernel environment, you are okay.
Gentoo is a lot more involved than Debian, you need to follow the instructions very carefully and it helps to understand the terminology. Read the install guide at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/?catid=install#doc_chap2 - the Gentoo Handbook is a good place to start.
I installed Debian 6.0 (squeeze) on my desktop, but that installed GNOME by default and I wanted KDE. I searched online how to switch it to KDE but I can't seem to make sense out of the instructions.
Installing kde worked fine, at startup I'm presented with a choice which GUI to load. Thanks a lot.
I'm still having problems with VirtualBox though. The package in Software Center says that it's not compatible, I downloaded the package from virtualbox.org but when I try to install it I get the same message - platform is not supported. Any ideas?
virtualbox-3.2 to install VirtualBox 3.2.12
virtualbox-3.1 to install VirtualBox 3.1.8
virtualbox-3.0 to install VirtualBox 3.0.14
virtualbox-2.2 to install VirtualBox 2.2.4
virtualbox-2.1 to install VirtualBox 2.1.4
virtualbox-2.0 to install VirtualBox 2.0.12
virtualbox to install VirtualBox 1.6.6
Note: Ubuntu/Debian users might want to install the dkms package to ensure that the VirtualBox host kernel modules (vboxdrv, vboxnetflt and vboxnetadp) are properly updated if the linux kernel version changes during the next apt-get upgrade. For Debian it is available in Lenny backports and in the normal repository for Squeeze and later. The dkms package can be installed through the Synaptic Package manager or through the following command:
There are detailed instructions on the virtualbox website
It appears that the default install lays down 64 bit kernel with 32 bit userland. And mix platforms are not supported by VirtualBox. Any idea how to fix this??
Just install a 32 bit kernel. You said that you only have a 32 bit machine. It wouldn't boot with a 64 bit kernel at all, so you may also change to 64 bit Debian.
It turned out in a different thread that the OP has installed the kfreebsd-version of Debian. I think that is also causing the problems in this thread.
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