Debian

[dragnev]

Hello folks,i've the following problem:
I want to install kde 3.x on my debian 3.0r3 but i met some difficults when installing it.
i'm using apt-get ,i typed
deb ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.3/Debian woody main
maybe i'm work somewhere because i'm newbie in debian(before i was a slackware user)
so. I don't know if there is a sequence in installing packages?
i type-d
apt-get install kdebase;kdelibs;kdeaddons;arts;..etc.
but ,there are dependeces in packages and the instalation aborted?
when i'm trying to install some othre package from these they were in dependence list ,it appears another problem.
So if i'm wrong anywhere please tell me,and if there is anything to read except apt-get howto:)

[Guest]

first you should upgrade to testing(Sarge) or unstable(Sid)
edit your /etc/apt/sources.list

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deb http://the.debian.mirror/debian/ sid main
deb-src http://the.debian.mirror/debian/ sid main

or

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deb http://the.debian.mirror/debian/ sarge main
deb-src http://the.debian.mirror/debian/ sarge main

then do 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get install kde'

The K Desktop Environment
A metapackage containing dependencies for the official suite of KDE including
arts, kdeaddons, kdeadmin, kdeartwork, kdebase, kdeedu, kdegames, kdegraphics,
kdelibs, kdemultimedia, kdenetwork, kdepim, kdetoys, kdeutils, and quanta.

Does not contain depends for Development packages.

woody is really stable and good for servers, but i think that unstable is enaugh stable for desktops, because it contains newer software packages and stuff.

[Maurice]

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apt-get install kdebase;kdelibs;kdeaddons;arts;

Don't use the ";" between the packages. The correct syntax is:

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apt-get install kdebase kdelibs kdeaddons

This is used to install only selected kde-packages, else use apt-get install kde to install the full kde desktop.