Adding KDE

Jason · Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 7:27 pm Post subject: Adding KDE

A friend of mine is using BLAG but wants KDE. I am going to give it a go on a box of mine just out of curiosity. How easy would it be to replace Gnome with KDE in BLAG? I don't just want to say to him to do it and then screw it all up. I have done it with other Linux distros and it was never that hard. I did used to lose menu settings etc though which was a pain. So any suggestions would be cool.

jebba · Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 7:38 pm Post subject:

You probably don't want to replace gnome, but just add KDE to the system, assuming the drive is large enough (say 5 gigs or so).

I don't have an exact list, but it will be something like:

apt-get install kdebase arts kde2-compat kdegraphics kdelibs kdemultimedia kdenetwork kdeutils qt2 qt

Should get the bulk. In fact, you can probably leave out a few of those things as apt will get them via dependencies.

Chris · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 3:47 am Post subject:

You can just add the KDE stuff you want using the synaptic package program in blag?

jebba · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 4:59 pm Post subject:

Ya, that's correct. The blag repository contains all blag and all redhat9. Basically the repository is the DVD's contents. Upgrading from 9000 series to 10000 series may be a bit trickier if you add lots of repository stuff though. But go for it. ;)

So you just run

Menu->System Tools->Synaptic

Do a "Update list"
Find the KDE stuff you want, hit "install"
Then "Execute"
It will download and install them. :)

-Jeff

spongebox · Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2004 3:36 pm Post subject:

I like how you marked out Redhat and put a typeset BLAG in KDE. Makes me feel like I'm part of something special here. The more I explore the possibilities, the happier I am. 8)

Jason · Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2004 12:44 pm Post subject:

Everyone involved is part of something special. Linux communities are nothing without its members.