Thread: [KDE] KDE/Koffice Install made easy for everyone
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2008-03-06 , 16:51
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Originally Posted by confini View Post
Hi,
and thanks for the answer. Anyway I was meaning that I had the usual startup screen of my N800 but without ANYTHING to click/press.
From what I've read I was supposed to have KDE in my "extra" menu, but I couldn't do anything at all.
I waited some minutes, let's say 5, after that I had to take off battery and reboot (= turn on again) the N800.
This is why now I am really interested in installing KDE without MMC boot, you think it's not a good idea? Should I try again the MMC boot way? But it has to work, in both modes!
I am wondering if my 2Gb MMC is not enough (for KDE with .debs), even if it seems me the most stupid answer to my problem.

thanks again

C.
sounds to me like something went wrong with the Booting from MMC/Cloning process. KDE install shouldn't affect your ability to do anything in Maemo, at least for the dual boot installation. If you decide to go the dual boot route again, make sure that you check to see if your clone is even booting up before you move forward to the KDE tarball part of things. In my experience, the majority of KDE installation problems have been either with the booting MMC/Cloning process or incomplete file downloads more than with the actual KDE install.

I don't know much about the .deb install process of KDE so can't really help there. Sorry. I personally am a dual booter - I use KDE as my desktop environment (haven't used Maemo in months) so any and every little bit of efficiency improvement I can get is good. Technically booting from MMC should provide a more efficient operation of KDE.
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