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Original von LittleBoyRick

Hey everyone

I must me a complete idiot or something.
I tryed to install KDE on a Debian machine, but i failed everytime.
All help files and tutorials talk about files i cant find or have different names.
(for example: when a tut asks for a file "kdelibs" i can only find files with names like "kdelibs_3.2.2-0.credativ.4_all.deb")
And when i try to apply the tutorial to that file.. it doesnt work (errors, failures, you name it)

I must admit, i am complete new to linux. But i want to use a GUI to start learning. And i really wanna learn.

But can anyone help me?

thanx in advanced

If you want to use the standard packages that come with your debian distro then all you have to do is:
apt-get install package-name

Then the apt tool will download any files you need for this package, also the .deb files of any depencies.

For example,
apt-get install kdenetwork
should be enough to install the KDE network programs along with any needed base packages (kdelibs, any external dependencies).

If you don't like the command line, there is aptitude (a character based frontend for the apt tool). I think a program called kaptitude is still in development, not sure how stable it is. That would be really a GUI. It is not in the debian distro yet. There may be other graphical frontends but I don't know them. I go with the command line tools.

Try with this page

http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?DebianKDE

Suerte :wink:

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Original von LittleBoyRick

Hey guys,

got a new problem. got a no screen error..
I found out i need to install a ati driver (for a mobility radeon 7000)
I dont now how to do this. got any tips anyone??

Check out ati.com. There are binary-only Linux drivers from ATI themselves. See if you can find your card in the list of supported cards.
It should come with installation instructions.

If it's not supported directly by ATI, there's a generic open source ati driver that comes with the X server.

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I heard that some people are making use of the automatic hardware detection of Knoppix (http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html) to get a working X configuration. They take a look at what Knoppix puts into the X config file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.