My difficulty is that I don't have access to the server and don't have a display connected. Without this, it seems that KDE will not install over a command line session VIA ssh because it cannot open a display.
I have been running commands like this as root:
apt-get install x-window-system-core kde kdm
A ton of stuff has installed itself but I cannot get it to finish. It's currently stuck with spitting errors like this to the above command:
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Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Sorry, x-window-system-core is already the newest version.
Sorry, kde is already the newest version.
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
x-window-system-core: Depends: xserver-xfree86
xnest: Depends: xserver-common but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
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Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
xserver-common xserver-xfree86
The following NEW packages will be installed:
xserver-common xserver-xfree86
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 106 not upgraded.
330 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/6078kB of archives. After unpacking 17.0MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
dpkg-preconfigure: cannot connect to X server
(Reading database ... 70435 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking xserver-common (from .../xserver-common_4.3.0.dfsg.1-14_i386.deb) ...
frontend: cannot connect to X server
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-common_4.3.0.dfsg.1-14_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Unpacking xserver-xfree86 (from .../xserver-xfree86_4.3.0.dfsg.1-14_i386.deb) ...
frontend: cannot connect to X server
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-xfree86_4.3.0.dfsg.1-14_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-common_4.3.0.dfsg.1-14_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-xfree86_4.3.0.dfsg.1-14_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Thanks,
Paul