trouble installing kde

From: Ignatz Sol (flyingrobot_at_gmail.com)
Date: 06/04/04

  • Next message: Mike Chandler: "Re: trouble installing kde" 
    Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 23:44:58 -0400
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

    I'm sure that I'm just suffering from newbitis and I apologize. I'm
    trying to install kde on sarge. I have done apt-get kde. I have the
    first 4 cds and everything installed with no problem and only a few
    items required to download. When I tried startkde I got something
    like:

    xset: unable to open display
    xsetwin[??]: unable to open display

    kwin: unable to connect X server
    kpersonalize[??]: unable to connect to X server

    (Sorry that I don't have the exact error messages, just the notes that
    I scrawled down.)

    After some googling I found that xserver-xfree86 was not installed. I
    put that in and did a apt-get dist-upgrade just to be sure.
    Everything was fine but no kde and same errors. I did a
    dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 which gave me a lot of dialogs that I
    hadn't seen before, but I still cannot start kde.

    Can anyone give me any ideas what to pursue here? It's a bit
    difficult because I'm dual-booting, so without kde or any other gui, I
    can't get online to browse for answers (except for lynx, which I can
    use for a bit, but I'm pretty spoiled on having firefox open with a
    dozen tabs with different solutions...). Again, my apologies if I
    just need to RTFM. If someone could point me to the correct FM I'd
    really appreciate it!

    Thanks. 

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