Re: What's the status of KDE in testing/etch?
Resent to ask the audience.
May I add that I am at 64bit not to carry out what I can do with debian 32
testing on my PC, but to speed up quantum mechanical calculations. What I
really need is X (I got beautifully as you describe below) and OpenMotif to
run a package (that I could compile for 64) that uses OpenGL for the graphics
engine, just to see the results in virtual space. Do you know the status of
these affairs in amd64 that we have installed?
Implicitly I need to recompile the generic kernel that I have installed.
Compiler/libraries (Motiv or Lesstif installed)?
Cheers
francesco pietra
PS: KDE would be very welcome anyway.
On Friday 26 May 2006 16:26, Ernest Knipp wrote:
> I may be at a similar place, have just got etch on. I find X is
> installed, can be configured with xorgconfig. Then startx gives me GUI
> window with X cursor, command line window in upper left. No KDE or
> gnome; but I can go to command line and bring up Mozilla. KDE components
> are available in woody and sarge directories; can we use these until the
> real thing comes along?
>
> Francesco Pietra wrote:
> >Hi Steve:
> >Did you succeed installing kde?
> >I have just installed amd64 eich for dual opterons, X-system is waiting to
> >install kde. Thnks for informing me
> >francesco pietra
> >
> >On Thursday 13 April 2006 09:15, Steve Juranich wrote:
> >>I just installed a fresh debian system on my spankin' new Athlon 64 X2
> >>3800. Things have gone pretty well so far, but I guess I just hit
> >>everything at just the right time as far as repository sanity goes.
> >>
> >>I've tried the past couple of days to `apt-get install kde' with no joy.
> >> I keep getting complaints like:
> >>
> >>coffee (~)$ sudo apt-get install kde
> >>Reading package lists... Done
> >>Building dependency tree... Done
> >>Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> >>requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> >>distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> >>or been moved out of Incoming.
> >>
> >>Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
> >>the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> >>that package should be filed.
> >>The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> >>
> >>The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >> kde: Depends: kde-core but it is not going to be installed
> >> Depends: kde-amusements but it is not going to be installed
> >> Depends: kdeaddons but it is not going to be installed
> >> Depends: kdeadmin but it is not going to be installed
> >> Depends: kdeartwork but it is not going to be installed
> >> Depends: kdegraphics but it is not going to be installed
> >> Depends: kdemultimedia but it is not going to be installed
> >> Depends: kdenetwork but it is not going to be installed
> >> Depends: kdepim but it is not going to be installed
> >> Depends: kdeutils but it is not going to be installed
> >> Depends: kdewebdev but it is not going to be installed
> >>E: Broken packages
> >>
> >>
> >>So I'm assuimg this all has to do with the migration over to the main
> >>debian FTP sites and that testing/etch will eventually catch up. Is this
> >> a correct assumption?
> >>
> >>If it is correct, can somebody give me a ballpark timeline when I can
> >>expect to be able to install the etch version of KDE for this platform?
> >>I've tried adding sarge to the repository and also had no luck.
> >>
> >>Thanks in advance for any hints.
> >>
> >>--
> >>Steve Juranich
> >>Tucson, AZ
> >>USA
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