Which KDE FTP should I download?

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Saturday, February 3rd 2007, 5:24pm

Hello, I know this is a noob question, but it is my first time ever using the Linux OS. I have downloaded the Debian distribution, and I was wondering what KDE files I should download. There are so many files when you click a primary FTP download site, and I am confused by which ones I should or should not download. Also, are there any torrent files that you can download?

Any input is appreciated!
Brook

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Saturday, February 3rd 2007, 5:51pm

RE: Which KDE FTP should I download?

If you're new at Linux, I'd rather suggest to use the package offered by Debian. So use it's package manager to retrieve the KDE packages.

Bram Schoenmakers
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brooklotzkar

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Saturday, February 3rd 2007, 5:53pm

Why shouldn't I use the KDE gui? I just need to know what files to download, but I've looked around many forums and I know how to install it.

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Saturday, February 3rd 2007, 6:48pm

a difference between windows and linux is that the latter does not require to you search the internet for software and downloading it manually: you can either select it in the GUI of the package manager (synaptic in Debian) or use a command (like apt-get install kde). The packagemanager looks for the KDE-packages needed, downloads them for you and installs them, including all packages not included with KDE, but needed nevertheless.

Please read the documentation of Debian for more information about apt, apt-get, dpkg, synaptic and adept.

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brooklotzkar

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Saturday, February 3rd 2007, 8:12pm

Whenever I try that command though, it says, Package kde is unavailable, but is referred to by another package.This means the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or or is only available from another source. E: package kde has no installation candidate.

So can i just download them from my computer with windows, burn it to a cd (unziped), and do the command on the Debian computer. I have also downloaded bzip2 and Qt 3.x.x.

Thanks for the help so far!

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Saturday, February 3rd 2007, 8:28pm

Ok so I got Bzip installed, but I still cant get KDE installed. I also cant get QT installed, but thats because I dont know how. Do you install QT by using the apt-get command, or do you have to download it from a different computer, burn it, and then install it?

Thanks again

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Saturday, February 3rd 2007, 11:10pm

if you want to install kde manually, you should download the .deb packages for debian, not generic .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 packages from kde.

if apt-get install kde does not work, you could check your sources.list if the source for kde is obsolete.
Also check documentation sites about debian to find out how apt-get works and how you can use that command to install kde.

i don't use debian, but if i did, i would install all software using apt-get.
debian offers over 15,000 packages with that package manager, so no need to do anything manual like downloading/installing .tar.* packages.

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Sunday, February 4th 2007, 12:53am

The packages may be named differently than just "kde"... look for names like kdebase and kdepim.

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Sunday, February 4th 2007, 6:47am

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Originally posted by Rinse
if you want to install kde manually, you should download the .deb packages for debian, not generic .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 packages from kde.

if apt-get install kde does not work, you could check your sources.list if the source for kde is obsolete.
Also check documentation sites about debian to find out how apt-get works and how you can use that command to install kde.

i don't use debian, but if i did, i would install all software using apt-get.
debian offers over 15,000 packages with that package manager, so no need to do anything manual like downloading/installing .tar.* packages.

Ok i will check out the documentation sites, but how do you you check the sources.list to see whether the packages are obsolete.

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Sunday, February 4th 2007, 9:52am

On debian sites you often find examples of sources.list files or lists with current debian sources.

AFAIK, 'kde' should be a meta package for apt-get, wich installs all necessary components.
But i could be mistaken, and docs about debian and kde can tell you if that is the case.

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