How to get a KDE to run

[Karl F. Larsen]

Steven Susbauer wrote:
> On Sun, 10 May 2009 13:40:40 -0500, Karl Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Carl Friis-Hansen wrote:
>>     
>>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>>     I am on my 8.10 Linux and I used $ sudo aptitude install kde and it
>>>> did so. But when I rebooted it still has Gnome Window Manager. It said
>>>> something about looking at /etc/init.c and setting the default  
>>>> properly.
>>>> I will try that and see.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> When it boots and you come to the gnome login screen you can choose what
>>> kind of session you want and what you want as default.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>     Not on this laptop. I got it to stop at the screen to login with and
>> clicked on options and looked at everything and no kde was even  
>> mentioned.
>>
>> So the heck with kde. It's too hard to get working on 8.10. I am sure it
>> is all installed but it sure is not working...
>>
>>
>> Karl
>>
>>
>>     
>
> If you want to use all of the kde stuff, you might try installing  
> kubuntu-desktop. I believe there is more to kde than just one package.
>
> Or just give up on it. :)
>
>   Cheers,
>     Steve
>
>   
    As I said I did exactly:

$ sudo aptitude install kde

and it took about 30 minutes to download about half a gigabyte of files. 
There were lib and all types starting with a k. It said at the end that 
I had to do something with the init files. I didn't have a clue how to 
do whatever it was.

    So this is what needs to be done. I know of no way to find out how 
to do it but I will Google starting kde and see if someone actually got 
it running.


Karl