I recently installed, 'Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.4 _Squeeze_ - Official i386 kde-CD Binary-1 20120128-12:53'.
Apparently parts of kde did not get installed; e.g.,
Code:
xdg-user-dirs/
/etc/xdg/user-dirs.con
/etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults
As a result, I don't have a 'standard' desktop and it's a real problem.
On
glue's recommendation, I tried to do:
Code:
aptitude install kde-full
...but I ran into problems.
Here's the print-out from terminal.
Code:
# aptitude install kde-standard
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
root@royrogers:/home/rooster# aptitude install kde-full
The following NEW packages will be installed:
advancecomp{a} akonadiconsole{a} amor{a} autopoint{a} blinken{a} blogilo{a}
bomber{a} bovo{a} cantor{a} cantor-backend-kalgebra{a} cervisia{a} cvs{a}
cvsservice{a} dirmngr{a} edict{a} espeak{a} espeak-data{a} gaupol{a} gawk{a}
gdb{a} gdbserver{a} gettext{a} git{a} gnome-audio{a} gnugo{a} gpgsm{a}
granatier{a} graphviz{a} gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio{a} javascript-common{a}
kalarm{a} kalgebra{a} kalzium{a} kalzium-data{a} kamera{a} kanagram{a}
kanjidic{a} kapman{a} kapptemplate{a} katomic{a} kbattleship{a} kblackbox{a}
kblocks{a} kbounce{a} kbreakout{a} kbruch{a} kbugbuster{a} kcachegrind{a}
kcharselect{a} kcolorchooser{a} kde-config-cddb{a} kde-config-cron{a}
kde-full kde-icons-mono{a} kde-plasma-netbook{a} kdeaccessibility{a}
kdeadmin{a} kdeartwork{a} kdeartwork-emoticons{a} kdeartwork-style{a}
kdeartwork-theme-icon{a} kdeedu{a} kdeedu-kvtml-data{a} kdegames{a}
kdegames-card-data{a} kdegames-mahjongg-data{a} kdegraphics{a}
kdegraphics-strigi-plugins{a} kdemultimedia{a} kdenetwork{a}
kdenetwork-filesharing{a} kdepim{a} kdepim-groupware{a} kdepim-kresources{a}
kdepim-strigi-plugins{a} kdepim-wizards{a} kdesdk{a} kdesdk-kio-plugins{a}
kdesdk-misc{a} kdesdk-scripts{a} kdesdk-strigi-plugins{a} kdetoys{a}
kdeutils{a} kdewallpapers{a} kdewebdev{a} kdf{a} kdiamond{a} kfilereplace{a}
kfloppy{a} kfourinline{a} kgamma{a} kgeography{a} kgeography-data{a} kget{a}
kgoldrunner{a} kgpg{a} khangman{a} kig{a} kigo{a} killbots{a}
kimagemapeditor{a} kiriki{a} kiten{a} kjots{a} kjumpingcube{a} kleopatra{a}
klettres{a} klettres-data{a} klines{a} klinkstatus{a} kmag{a} kmahjongg{a}
kmines{a} kmousetool{a} kmouth{a} kmplot{a} kmtrace{a} knetwalk{a}
knetworkconf{a} knode{a} kolf{a} kollision{a} kolourpaint4{a} kommander{a}
kompare{a} konquest{a} konsolekalendar{a} kontact{a} kpartloader{a} kpat{a}
kppp{a} krdc{a} kreversi{a} krfb{a} krosspython{a} kruler{a} ksame{a}
kscd{a} kshisen{a} ksirk{a} kspaceduel{a} ksquares{a} kstars{a}
kstars-data{a} ksudoku{a} ksystemlog{a} kteatime{a} ktimer{a}
ktimetracker{a} ktouch{a} ktron{a} kttsd{a} ktuberling{a} kturtle{a} ktux{a}
kubrick{a} kuiviewer{a} kuser{a} kweather{a} kwordquiz{a} libapr1{a}
libaprutil1{a} libasound2-plugins{a} libboost-python1.42.0{a} libc6-dbg{a}
libcfitsio3{a} libcgraph5{a} libdotconf1.0{a} liberror-perl{a} libespeak1{a}
libfont-afm-perl{a} libfribidi0{a} libgsl0ldbl{a} libgtkspell0{a}
libgvpr1{a} libhtml-format-perl{a} libhtml-parser-perl{a}
libhtml-tagset-perl{a} libhtml-tree-perl{a} libjs-jquery{a} libkblog4{a}
libkdcraw8{a} libkdeedu4{a} libkdegames5{a} libkiten4{a} libkrossui4{a}
libksane0{a} libktorrent2{a} libkwebkit1{a} libkxmlrpcclient4{a}
liblircclient0{a} libmailtools-perl{a} libopenal1{a} libopenbabel3{a}
libportaudio2{a} libpulse-browse0{a} libserf-0-0{a} libspeechd2{a}
libsvn1{a} libtelepathy-qt4-0{a} libtimedate-perl{a} libunistring0{a}
liburi-perl{a} libvncserver0{a} libwww-perl{a} lokalize{a} lskat{a}
marble{a} mplayer{a} mplayerthumbs{a} nuvola-icon-theme{a} okteta{a}
optipng{a} palapeli{a} palapeli-data{a} parley{a} parley-data{a}
plasma-netbook{a} poxml{a} pulseaudio{a} pulseaudio-esound-compat{a}
pulseaudio-module-x11{a} pulseaudio-utils{a} python-aeidon{a}
python-chardet{a} python-dateutil{a} python-enchant{a} python-gtkspell{a}
python-iniparse{a} python-levenshtein{a} python-lxml{a} python-qt4-dbus{a}
python-simplejson{a} python-utidylib{a} python-vobject{a} rdesktop{a}
rocs{a} rsync{a} speech-dispatcher{a} step{a} subversion{a}
system-config-printer-kde{a} translate-toolkit{a} ttf-dustin{a}
ttf-kochi-gothic{a} ttf-sazanami-mincho{a} ttf-sjfonts{a} umbrello{a}
valgrind{a} wwwconfig-common{a}
0 packages upgraded, 250 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/298 MB of archives. After unpacking 619 MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Media Change: Please insert the disc labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.4 _Squeeze_ - Official i386 kde-CD Binary-1 20120128-12:53' in the drive '/media/cdrom/' and press [Enter].
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I had inserted the DVD in '/media/cdrom' but the same 'Media Change:' message kept repeating.
The first time I tried the kde-full, it ran beautifully for about 6 minutes and seemed to be proceeding as expected. I did the 'Media Change' + Enter thing a couple of times; which also seemed to keep things moving along until the last 'Media Change' request appeared and wouldn't go further.
So I took a chance and tried to see if anything had installed.
Code:
rooster@royrogers:~$ mount /media/cdrom
mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
rooster@royrogers:~$ su
Password:
root@royrogers:/home/rooster# aptitude install kde-full
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
W: Could not lock the cache file; this usually means that dpkg or another apt tool is already installing packages. Opening in read-only mode; any changes you make to the states of packages will NOT be preserved!
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
# aptitude upgrade kde-full
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
W: Could not lock the cache file; this usually means that dpkg or another apt tool is already installing packages. Opening in read-only mode; any changes you make to the states of packages will NOT be preserved!
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
root@royrogers:/home/rooster#
Again; no joy.
I'm really stuck.
r.
