Alexander Henry wrote:
> kde has now been removed and is uninstallable.

I helped a Mark with this very problem at the last installfest.  His box was 
just a workstation so we upgraded him to unstable and installed KDE for him with 
that.  If Mark is listening ... hows it working for you?

I think the important thing is to _prevent_ it from doing the uninstall in the 
first place.  Perhaps apt-get should print in RED the things its going to 
install or something ... its an easy thing to mistakenly do ... just typing away 
and accpeting unfortunate changes.

As far as installing gnome ... first install synaptic and then use synatpic to 
pick a bunch of gnome related things ... you will eventually get enough to run 
it ... try gnome-core or gnome-common .... or gnome-base ... I forget :)

Actually for gnome I suggest you do unstable as well ... Gnome 2.4 is quite nice.

Oh, I would only do unstable if its a workstation.  If its a server ... you 
don't need X even :)

Austin