Thread: [KDE] KDE/Koffice Install made easy for everyone
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Originally Posted by stan800 View Post
Problems with KDE installation.
This is my first posting, so please be kind.
After downloading kde .deb files and the .tar.bz2 file I quickly (too quickly) started to installing from mmc1. Everything went smoothly, then I started KDE from the EXTRAS and didnot get past the opening blue screen. Then I spent hours searching the forum for answers, and yes, my KDE358.tar.bz2 file was too small. 250MB instead of 294MB.
Since then I managed to download the complete version and I tried install again. Did get a message, do you want to update, when I was trying to install and it quit. Then I tried uninstalling, to start all over again. Only one left is KDE-mmc1, cannot uninstall. When I try to get my mmc1 card out to load all the files again or when I connect to PC with cable, get message: unable to connect, memory card in use. Also: memory card in use, removing card may damage data etc. No program seems to be running on the n800.
Guess I will really need some help from a kind forum member. Good thing, all other applications on n800 are so far working.
Please help, Stan

OK, so much info, where to begin?

If you are trying to uninstall KDE and it is failing.

Go to application manager and uninstall it

When it fails,

In application manager, open the menu, Tools > Log

Paste the Log up here so we can see why its failing.

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As for the mmc card, once KDE in installed, it puts 2 files on your mmc card, local.img and swap.img. local.img is a mounted filesystem and swap.img is a swap file. When the N800/N810 is booted it mounts the local.img as /usr/local and enables swap. When this happens the mmc card is now in use and when using USB connection you can not mount that card because its in use.

To get around this to transfer some files, shut down n800, remove mmc card with KDE on it, boot up N800, then place in the mmc card back into the n800, then use USB.

In order to use KDE again, the mmc card MUST be in the n800 during system boot.
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