Stopping KDM

[nibl]

After a remaster kdm has configured itself to run.

How do you change it back to the default so that startx runs insteasd of kdm?

Thanks,

nibl

[rwcitek]

After a remaster kdm has configured itself to run.
What version of Knoppix are you using to remaster?

Regards,
- Robert
http://www.cwelug.org

[nibl]

It's 3.7, since we need kernel 2.4.x

Any ideas?

Thanks,

nibl

[rwcitek]

It's 3.7, since we need kernel 2.4.x
Any ideas?
Not any good ones. I've remastered using 3.8.2 and I've never had an issue. Unfortunatley for your needs 3.8.2 uses the 2.6 kernel. Have you tried a "trivial remaster" using 3.7? Here are my notes for doing a trivial remaster (http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Trivial_remaster_3.8.2) using 3.8.2. By "trivial" I don't mean the process is trivial, but rather the result is trivial. The steps are a nice positive control to make a working version of Knoppix.

In your particular case, why did you remaster? That is, what's different between your remaster and the original? I'd start by looking at the steps you did to make the remastered version.

Regards,
- Robert
http://www.cwelug.org

[nibl]

What I need to do is update KDE to 3.4 in order to solve a dependency of an internationalization package (KDE Lithuanian).

Can you update KDE without doing a dist-upgrade?

I'll look at your trivial remaster, looks interesting in any case. My chrooted remaster works fine, and other updates work okay. It has fewer packages, uses IceWM, and internationalization, plus some other things. KDE 3.4 is the problem.

Many Thanks,

nibl

[rwcitek]

What I need to do is update KDE to 3.4 in order to solve a dependency of an internationalization package (KDE Lithuanian).

Can you update KDE without doing a dist-upgrade?
I've never had good results with a dist-upgrade under Knoppix.

Regards,
- Robert
http://www.cwelug.org

[nibl]

If I try to install the package I need, apt tells me kdelibs4c2 is required and I get stuck there. It's a no go. dist-upgrade will at least do the KDE update...only it breaks other things :-(

Any ideas how to get around the dependency problems?
How do you update KDE for Knoppix?

Thanks,

nibl

[tr]

Any ideas how to get around the dependency problems?
How do you update KDE for Knoppix?


I was also forced to upgrade to KDE 3.4.2 from KDE 3.4.1 because of broken finnish language package. About a month ago everything was very easy and dist-upgrade didn't cause any extra problem.

Now the situation is not the same. If you have testing and unstable in your /etc/apt/sources.list, dist-upgrade wants to install X.org instead of XFree86. And I have not succeeded to get X.org to start automatically after burning CD.

So you must check carefully what is to be installed. Don't install x11-common because then xfree86 don't start anymore. I think this is a Debian packaging problem because at this stage X.org is not installed. You get only a message that you should install x-window-system metapackage. It uses xorg.conf instead of XFConfig-4 - so you should rename it to that or make a symlink to get X to start. I have not investigated that very much, so I can't tell how to get X.org to work propelly.

But those dependency problems are caused because of packages have files which have same names. You can bypass that by adding to /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg a new line force-overwrite. It doesn't break anything. But no dependency problems after that :)


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