The installation for a Debian system is also rather straightforward. You will only find KDE 2.0 packages for Debian 2.2 (Potato) and 2.3 (Woody). We describe here how to install packages for Debian 2.2, the stable version, since Debian 2.3 is still in development. However, the installation for both versions, is almost identical. The main difference is that KDE is oficially included in Debian 2.3 and you do not need to specify any special location to find the deb packages for KDE.
The first step is to tell your system where it can find the deb packages for KDE. A list of locations for the Debian packages is kept in your hard disk in /etc/apt/sources.list. You should add to that file the following line: http://kde.tdyc.com/ stable kde2
Then you have to update your local package database so that your system knows that there are new packages available. Type the following command:
apt-get update |
Finally you should install the KDE base components. This is acomplished by typing:
apt-get install kdebase |
If you want to install other components you should try some, or all these options:
apt-get install task-kdenetwork apt-get install task-kdeadmin apt-get install task-kdetoys apt-get install task-kdeutils apt-get install task-kdemultimedia apt-get install task-kdegraphics apt-get install task-kdepim apt-get install task-kdegames apt-get install task-koffice apt-get install kdebase-docs apt-get install kdm |
You may also be interested in installing your language.
apt-get install kde-i18n-xx |
where xx has to be substitued with the country code.
The control files for some KDE applications will be placed at /etc/kde2, the executables will go in /usr/bin and most of the auxiliary files in /usr/share under different directories.
If you are upgrading from a previous version of KDE you should perform the following steps. First, update file /etc/apt/sources.list by changing the line with the location of KDE packages with line: http://kde.tdyc.com/ stable kde2. Second update your package database:
apt-get update |
Finally install the kde base system:
apt-get install kdebase apt-get dist-upgrade |
If you want to install more KDE components try some, or all these options.
apt-get install task-kdenetwork apt-get install task-kdeadmin apt-get install task-kdetoys apt-get install task-kdeutils apt-get install task-kdemultimedia apt-get install task-kdegraphics apt-get install task-kdepim apt-get install task-kdegames apt-get install task-koffice apt-get install kdebase-docs apt-get install kdm |