# Install KDE on SUSE.

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/install-kde-on-suse/23667>\
**Category:** SLES Configure-Administer\
**Created:** [February 24, 2013, 10:29pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/install-kde-on-suse/23667 "2013-02-24T22:29:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![wanting2learn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a9a28c/32.png) [@wanting2learn](https://forums.suse.com/u/wanting2learn)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 10:29pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/install-kde-on-suse/23667/1 "2013-02-24T22:29:42Z")

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I have SLES 11 and it has Gnome installed by default.

I can start the Gnome Display by running:  
/usr/sbin/gdm

I have a problem loggin in via this method (I have another post about this) so I want to try to install KDE and see if it works. As I cannot log in I can’t use YAST so I have to use the command line.

I install KDE by doing the following  
zypper in kdebase4-runtime-4.3.5-0.1.97.x86\_64.rpm

This installs several KDE binaries for example:  
/usr/bin/kde4  
/usr/bin/kde4-menu  
/usr/bin/kde4-config  
etc

My question is how do I manually launch KDE (Like I did before with gdm)

Thank

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**Author:** ![malcolmlewis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/malcolmlewis/32/11375_2.png) [@malcolmlewis](https://forums.suse.com/u/malcolmlewis)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 10:54pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/install-kde-on-suse/23667/2 "2013-02-24T22:54:20Z")

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> [@](#):
>
> On Sun 24 Feb 2013 08:34:01 PM CST, wanting2learn wrote:
> 
> I have SLES 11 and it has Gnome installed by default.
> 
> I can start the Gnome Display by running:  
> /usr/sbin/gdm
> 
> I have a problem loggin in via this method (I have another post about  
> this) so I want to try to install KDE and see if it works. As I cannot  
> log in I can’t use YAST so I have to use the command line.
> 
> I install KDE by doing the following  
> ZYPPER IN KDEBASE4-RUNTIME-4.3.5-0.1.97.X86\_64.RPM
> 
> This installs several KDE binaries for example:  
> /usr/bin/kde4  
> /usr/bin/kde4-menu  
> /usr/bin/kde4-config  
> etc
> 
> My question is how do I manually launch KDE (Like I did before with  
> gdm)
> 
> Thank

Hi  
You can run the command yast (ncurses based) from the command line…  
you need to edit the displaymanager file to set kdm in  
the /etc/sysconfig editor.

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