Quote Originally Posted by rusty
OK

The machine now boots to a debian gui login, not command line, I guess it starts xdm from init.rc.?
/etc/rc[2-5].d/S99xdm if you have not changed it which one gets used depends on the /etc/inittab settings for the default runlevel.
KDE is not installed, in fact most of the programs have r c flags when dpkg -l is run.

If I want kde should I apt-get all of it or just the parts I want. Just trying to avoid unseen pitfalls.

Thanks.
Getting the parts works fine for me never have used the KDE meta package to get everything and from the looks of it the package has not been made for the 3.2.1 branch if that is what you want to use so it is individual packages there.

Code:
>$ apt-cache policy kde
kde:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 4:3.1.2
  Version Table:
     4:3.1.2 0
        990 http://ftp2.de.debian.org testing/main Packages
        600 http://ftp2.de.debian.org unstable/main Packages
     4:2.2.25 0
        500 http://ftp2.de.debian.org stable/main Packages