minimalist KDE in natty

[Felix Miata]

On 2011/01/25 00:17 (GMT-0800) Michael Casadevall composed:

> Felix Miata  wrote:

>>  Is there a meta package to accomplish this? I don't want libreoffice, pim or
>>  desktop search, just enough KDE to have a functional DTE. So far from a
>>  minimal install I've apt-get installed akonadi-server, libakonadi-dde4,
>>  dbus-x11, libqt4-dbus, kdebase-bin, kdebase-data, kdebase-runtime,
>>  kdebase-runtime-data, kdeartwork, kdebase-workspace, kdebase-workspace-bin,
>>  kdebase-workspace-data, libkdecore5, libkworkspace4, plasma-desktop, xorg,
>>  xserver-xorg, xserver-xorg-video-intel and a whole bunch of other kde*,
>>  libk*&  *x11* packages, but all I get is a blank screen with mouse cursor
>>  after logging in via KDM or running startx. No other DTE is installed.
>>
>>  Alternatively, can someone see in
>>  http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Buntu/xsession-errors what the problem is well
>>  enough to tell me something else that needs to be installed?

> It's been awhile, but I *think* if you do a basic install (like server
> with no extra packages) and do "sudo apt-get install
> --no-install-recommends kubuntu-desktop" it should only pull in the
> basic set of packages. Failing that, you should be able to install
> just the session package and then cherrypick what you want, but I'll
> have to look up what you need.

21 more packages it wants:
kde-zeroconf
kdegames-card-data
kdemultimedia-kio-plugins
kdepasswd
khelpcenter4
kmix
kpat
kubuntu-desktop
kubuntu-netbook-default-settings
language-selector-qt
libdiscid0
libkcddb4
libkdegames5
libmusicbrainz3-6
libneon27-gnutls
libokularcore1
libpoppler-qt4-3
okular
phonon-backend-gstreamer
plasma-netbook
software-properties-kde

Surely some of these shouldn't be requirements, e.g. *netbook* or *games*. I 
tried just khelpcenter4, libdiscid0, okular, libpoppler-qt4-3, 
software-properties-kde, language-selector-qt. Still no go, but 
.xsession-errors size went down 3/4 to 32k. Maybe KDE is currently broken?
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