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What is KDE?
KDE is a group of people producing software and great experience. The software products is a set of libraries, a great application collection (from games and educational applications to web browsers, office and creativity suites and PIM (email, addressbook and calendar) applications and a set of workspace shells (One targetted desktops & laptops, one targetted the netbook formfactor and one targetted tablets and similar touch screen devices. The latter is not yet packaged for Debian)
KDE in Debian
You can find information about KDE's software in Debian from the Debian Qt/KDE maintainers website.
DebianLenny contains a mix of KDE 3.5.9 and 3.5.10.
DebianSqueeze contains KDE's 4.4.5 release.
DebianWheezy contains KDE 4.8.4 with KDE PIM 4.4.11.
DebianUnstable contains KDE 4.8.4 with KDE PIM 4.4.11.
Installation
There are three options to install KDE Plasma Desktop in Debian:
How to install |
Description |
|
"KDE Plasma Desktop" |
Debian's selection of applications |
|
KDE (Full release of workspace, applications and framework) |
kde-full package |
The standard/upstream release |
KDE (Debian selected common stuff for workspace, applications and framework) |
kde-standard package |
A debian selection of common things |
KDE Plasma Desktop |
kde-plasma-desktop package |
This is a minimalist plasma desktop |
KDE Plasma Netbook |
kde-plasma-netbook package |
This is a minimalist plasma netbook |
Watch out recommended packages (i.e packages dependencies) !
(you might or might not want to install them).
Installing "KDE Desktop" task
KDE Desktop task is what is installed by Debian-Installer's Desktop "task" (if you typed install desktop=kde at DebianInstaller CD prompt.)
To install KDE later, first make sure that tasksel and aptitude are installed:
apt-get install aptitude tasksel
Then, install the kde-desktop task:
aptitude --without-recommends install standard desktop kde-desktop
(This is what DebianInstaller would have installed in a new system, but you might want/need to uninstall the current display manager).
KDE Desktop - Content
FYI,
The "KDE Desktop" task is actually the sum of tasksel's common desktop (desktop) and tasksel's selected desktop (kde-desktop) :
#tasksel -t install kde desktop aptitude -q --without-recommends -o APT::Install-Recommends=no -y install desktop kde-desktop
As of DebianSqueeze, this corresponds to:
(tasksel --task-packages desktop ; tasksel --task-packages kde-desktop) | sort -u
alsa-base
alsa-utils
anacron
avahi-daemon
browser-plugin-gnash
cpufrequtils
cups
cups-bsd
cups-client
cups-driver-gutenprint
desktop-base
eject
foo2zjs
foomatic-db-engine
gimp
hpijs
hplip
hp-ppd
iceweasel
k3b
k3b-i18n
kde-standard
kdesudo
kdm
libgl1-mesa-dri
libnss-mdns
libqtcore4-perl
libqtgui4-perl
menu
menu-xdg
myspell-en-us
network-manager-kde
openoffice.org
openoffice.org-gcj
openoffice.org-help-en-us
openoffice.org-kde
openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us
pm-utils
system-config-printer
twm
xdg-utils
xorg
xserver-xorg-input-all
xserver-xorg-video-all
xterm
The appearance of GTK-applications in KDE
To get gtk-applications look native in KDE you need install these packages and configure appearance of them through System Settings > Application appearance.
KDE configuration module for GTK+ 2/3.x style selection |
|
Oxygen widget theme for GTK2+-based applications |
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Oxygen widget theme for GTK3+-based applications (Debian Wheezy) |