Re: [TCLUG:13570] Debian / KDE...

[Jim Crumley <crumley@belka.space.umn.edu>]

> 
> Hey. 
> 
> Quick question for you debian users. 
> 
> With most debian packages, I can do an apt-get install packagename, and
> debian downloads the package (and it's dependancies) and installs it. 
> 
> I was just wondering if there is a way to do this to install kde
> applications...  I know debian has some sort of thing against "KDE" (or,
> at least for some strange reason they don't put it even in their non-free
> section). 
  
Yes, conflicting licenses are a bad thing.  But I won't go into that
here ;) 

> Up until now, I have just been downloading the KDE .deb files and
> installing them with dpkg...  Just wondering if there is a way to get apt
> to see kde stuff.

Yes there is away.  There is a project to make KDE packages for the
major distributions at http://kde.tdyc.com/.  There is an archive 
that works with apt-get, the details and all of the apt-get source
lines are at http://kde.tdyc.com/Debian/.  

I'm not sure how up to date the KDE stuff is, since there mailing
list archives seems to have died in October.  But the ftp site
has some debs as recent as December, so it shouldn't be too out
of date. (I have KDE installed but I don't use it much, and I don't
pay much attention to when it gets updated).

Let me know if this works for you.  If you have problems getting
apt to work right, I can send you the lines I use in my sources.list
file from my box at home.

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