Install

If you want to use KDE as the display manager on a workstation or laptop, you need to have installed the X Window System before installing KDE. To get a base install of X, do an apt-get install x-window-system-core. With kdm being a nice package to have installed as well, do an apt-get install kdm after following the below instructions to install KDE.

kde-core is a meta-package giving you a minimum KDE install. Install the kde package if you want the whole of ["KDE3"] (doesn't currently work, due to kdemultimedia, see above).

If you go for kde-core, you may also want some of kdeaddons, kdeadmin, kdeartwork,kdeedu, kdegames, kdegraphics, kdemultimedia, kdenetwork, kdepim, kdeprint,kdesdk, kdetoys, kdeutils.

Sid [aka unstable]

[libsensors-1debian1 http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2003/06/24/debian/pool/main/l/lm-sensors/libsensors-1debian1_2.7.0-6_i386.deb ] isn't in debian archive anymore, you can get it from snapshot.debian.net.

Sarge [aka testing] (using sid debs)

   Package: *
   Pin: release unstable
   Pin-Priority: 600

Woody [aka stable]

Then apt-get install arts kdelibs kdebase and whatever other metapackages you want, like kdepim, kdenetwork etc.

KDE HEAD

Other questions:

I can't compile KDE programs - it can't find Qt libraries.

If you get an error about missing Qt libraries when compiling programs for ["KDE3"] on Debian, try running configure with the following option:

   --with-qt-includes=/usr/include/qt3

If this still doesn't work, and you definately have kdelibs-dev and libqt3-compat-headers installed, try reading the [http://opendoorsoftware.com/cgi/http.pl?p=["DebianQTChecklist" "Qt-Trouble" document]] or asking on debian-kde@lists.debian.org for help.

#debian-kde

What and where is #debian-kde?

#debian-kde is the ?FreeNode IRC channel for discussion of Debian and KDE. Feel free to come in and ask for help troubleshooting a problem not covered in this FAQ. But be sure that it's not in the FAQ before asking, as questions covered in the FAQ will simply be ignored, at best.

Nobody answered my question, why?

Maybe you were really irritating while asking it. Maybe the answer is already in the FAQ, or easily available at the other end of a Google search. Or, maybe nobody who knows the answer was in the channel at the time you asked it.

Try waiting for a while to see if anybody knows the answer. Don't repeat the question unless it's been a long while and several new people have entered the channel.

I want to help, what can I do?

Already available for woody with this line in /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://www.opensides.be/debian woody main

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