Questions;
- Is KDE any easier to install?
Sorry, but what distro are you using? Is it RPM based? (rpm based= nothing's actually very easy to do). How come your distro didn't install these things?
Sorry, I should have said (as a card-carrying paranoid masochist power-freak :o) ) that I'm not using a distro but I'm building everything from source (using LinuxFromScratch 3.3 as a base). Actually I'm using it as a way of learning more about all the various bits of GNU/Linux. Once I'm a bit happier that I know what I'm doing (that's likely to be a looong looong time :o) ) I shall probably install a disto (Debian is looking a favourite at the moment).
If you were using debian you'd do: apt-get install task-gnome-apps task-gnome-net task-gnome-core
Subsidiary question then, can I, and should I, get and install RPM or apt-get? Will they do things behind-my-back in-front-of-my-face that I might object to?
And thanks for the feedback.
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