[GLLUG] Debian & KDE

Timothy Schmidt tim@schmidt.is-a-geek.com
Sat, 22 Feb 2003 11:27:18 -0500


Many times those apps are bundled up into a single package called something 
like KDE-Games or KDE-PIM.  Check to see that this is not the case.

--tim

On Friday 21 February 2003 08:47 pm, Brian Hoort wrote:
> I am running Debian testing. Their KDE is very old. I'mtrying to give
> Debian a newer apt sources.list entry so that I may run newer versions of
> KDE. I have tried the following:
>
> deb http://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/kde/stable/latest/Debian stable main
> #deb http://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/kde/stable/koffice-1.2.1/Debian ./
> #deb http://kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.1/Debian stable main
>
> but the second two don't work, and even when the first one works, apt
> reports that it's going to remove most of my KDE apps (dependant on older
> KDE?), rather than update them. I presume this means that those apps (kscd,
> kedit, kate, ksirc, kword, the rest of koffice and on and on...) are not in
> that path, compiled for 3.1. I'm surprised that kde.org would offer it this
> way. Am I missing something? Would someone please fill in the blanks for
> me? I am very anxcious to try out KDE 3.1, and keep my apps!
>
> Thanks much for your time!
>
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