[SOLVED] Problem installing KDE

[saint_geser]

G'day mates! Sorry for being disturbing but yet another issue has come up.

I have installed Debian 5 Lenny on my PC (used Debian a lot during my time at uni but haven't used it for e few years now). It has installed with Gnome desktop envrnmt as default.

Now I want to switch it to KDE. I installed KDE packages using aptitude from terminal. During the installation I was prompted whether I want to use gdm or kdm as a default desktop manager - and I chose kdm. As a result the login screen has changed but everything else stays Gnome'ish....

Sorry for such a lame question but how can I finally get the KDE working?

Thanks... sorry to bother so much...

[Legolasthehansy]

Try to see if you can remove KDE packages from the graphical package manager of your OS. Once done, reinstall the same from there... you should be able to get it working..

[devils casper]

Which KDE Packages did you install? Have you installed kde-core package?

If you want to install complete KDE, then execute this

apt-get install kde-desktop

But, as you have installed kdm already, I would recommend to install kde-core only.

sudo apt-get install kde-core

You will have choices to select KDE or Gnome at Login Screen on reboot. If you want to use GDM then execute this

dpkg-reconfigure gdm

You will have Gnome Login Screen having option to choose Gnome or KDE.

[reed9]

It sounds to me like you only need to select the correct session from the login manager.

There should be a button/option on the login screen labeled session. Select that and select KDE.

[saint_geser]

Thanks guys!

I used brute force to solve the problem - reinstalled Debian without GUI at all and installed KDE from command promt.