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adi-beg · n00b Joined: 26 Oct 2004 Posts: 36 Location: Tromsø

Can somebody explain this:

Dawid159 · Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 11:13 am Post subject:

You have installed kdebase-3.4.x if you want to install kdebase-meta or only kdm etc. you should do

adi-beg · n00b Joined: 26 Oct 2004 Posts: 36 Location: Tromsø

Thanks, kdm is working now. But I have a new problem: there is no posibility to choose kde in kdm meny. How can I add kde in kdm config? And how can I add other wm, like windowmaker?

Dawid159 · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 9:08 am Post subject:

The KDE will be added to kdm menu when you installed

adi-beg · n00b Joined: 26 Oct 2004 Posts: 36 Location: Tromsø

KDE is now in meny, but when I start it, it doesn't show panel. What's wrong?

Dawid159 · Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:46 pm Post subject:

Spirit4ever · Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 5:03 pm Post subject:

I got a little problem with the "emerge -C kdebase"-solution.
I just installed the kdebase to be able to use kde without all the extra stuff and now i want kdm.
2 weeks ago i was just able to emerge it and now it is blocked?

I don't want to deinstall kde again

Did i miss something?

henryzhou · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Aug 2005 Posts: 86

Yes I have the same problem.

Is it the only solution that we emerge -C kdebase and then emerge kdm?

Do I need to emerge kdebase again after emerge kdm?

It really takes a long time.

opqdan · Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 1:45 pm Post subject:

As far as I know kdm is included in kdebase, that is why it is blocked. There shouldn't be any need to remove kdebase. Just set your default dm to kdm and add xdm to default.

If you don't understand how to use the split kde ebuilds, it is probably much better for you to instead emerge kde-meta which will install all basic kde packages to be able to use kdm/kde. It's not as bulky as it used to be (doesn't come with many apps/games etc) and it is a lot easier to do.

arjay1 · n00b Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 57 Location: Coin, Spain

opqdan

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I'm still a bit of a newbie but recognised the good points you were making about which bits of kde to download. I have just got a working installation of Gentoo (command prompt only) and decided to install kde-meta, rather than muck about trying to figure out what I needed.

I started emerging kde-meta in my innocence and vaguely saw something about 1/346 flashing by on the screen. Oh well, thinks I, I'll go to bed and see how things are going tomorrow morning (well I know a bit about this compile business now!!)

Imagine my horror, when - 12 hours later - I have a look and see 97/346 on the screen. By my reckoning, that would be another FOUR DAYS before all the kde apps were down and installed!!

I have a twin PIII CPU machine with 512 Mb of Ram (not the fastest in the world I'll grant you, but reasonable). I have a decent fast hard disk and very rapid broadband.

Needless to say, I interrupted the download and am thinking again. :roll:

Maedhros · Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 8:50 am Post subject:

Moved from Desktop Environments to Duplicate Threads in favour of Blockers in KDE 3.4.1
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