Re: Re: [Sheflug] KDE 3.1.4 and Debian

[adwilson [at] xxxxxxxxxx]

Cheers Jose, I shall give that a go.
>adwilson [at] talk21.com  wrote:

>> 
>> Someone mentioned they had KDE 3.1.4 running on Debian, I'm still stuck on KDE 2.2.2 :( but want to upgrade.  I'm actually running Xandros (Debian based), but I've done a distro upgrade using apt-get to debian unstable.  but it doesn't seem to have given me all the latest goodies I was hoping for.  Persumably it should be as simple as apt-get install KDE.  Or am I missing something fundamental ?  for ref I've included my sources.list file.

>    Well, KDE is not yet in Testing (Sarge), which is what you have in
your /etc/apt/sources.list. I run KDE 3.1.4 on Sarge, but use the
KDE packages for Woody. KDE 3 has not yet entered Sarge). 

>    You can do that by instructing Debian to use a pick'n'mix approach
to packages.

>    The whole article that tells you how to go about it is here:
>    <http://es.kde.org/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticle&artid=19>

>    It's written for 3.1.2, but works for 3.1.4 (I apt-get update'd
when I saw it fit :D).

>    Regards,
>    José
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