After Ubuntu was randomly refusing to load on my laptop, I returned to Debian.
Netinst disc, an hour on 2MBps link and we are here – mixed Debian testing/unstable with KDE, Cinelerra, Kino, gEDA an a lot of ‘standart’ stuff.
The problems were:
- missing one of Debian package keys, although ‘debian-archive-keyring’ is the latest version;
- the empty KDE control center. The solution was not so simple. Seems like Debian control package is missing a file: post forums.Debian.net
The solution is to create /etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/kde-essential.menu file with the following content:
<!DOCTYPE Menu PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD Menu 1.0//EN" "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/menu-spec/1.0/menu.dtd"> <Menu> <!-- The following menus are hidden by default --> <Menu> <Name>Settings</Name> <Directory>kde-settings.directory</Directory> <MergeFile>../kde-settings.menu</MergeFile> </Menu> <Menu> <Name>Information</Name> <Directory>kde-information.directory</Directory> <MergeFile>../kde-information.menu</MergeFile> </Menu> <Move> <Old>Settings/Information</Old><New>Information</New> </Move> <Menu> <Name>System</Name> <Menu> <Name>ScreenSavers</Name> <Directory>kde-system-screensavers.directory</Directory> <MergeFile>../kde-screensavers.menu</MergeFile> </Menu> </Menu> </Menu>
- libxaw8 library is missing fro the repisitory, so ngspice from zerobeat.in is not installing.
- usbmgr for some reason is not installed by default, so USB mouse does not work. And yes, please dot’t use ‘usbmouse’ module on a rush;)