Re: Compiling KDE 2.2 on potato ?
On Wednesday 29 August 2001 09:50, Dave Collett wrote:
> Hello all,
> I am interested in trying KDE 2.2 (I currently use gnome). My system is
> currently running debian 2.2r3 with the backports for kernel 2.4.x and
> XFree86 4.1.0.
>
> Since it seems KDE 2.2 will NOT be avaliable for potato through this
> project (is this correct ?), I was wondering if anyone has had any luck
> compiling from source on potato ?
>
> I dont know what sort of library versions etc that KDE2.2 depends on, so
> I just thought I would ask if anyone has done this already in potato and
> if any complications arise, before I try it myself.
>
> Please let me know if you have sucessfully (or not!) installed KDE2.2
> from souce (or binary even) from the standard release at www.kde.org on
> a potato system and what special procedures (if any) were required.
>
> Thankyou, keep up the good work !
> Dave
The question is not if it can be done, but if it makes sense. I guess you're
running potato because its "stable" but it you backport large parts of
unstable you get an environment very few have tested, and how stable is it
really? .. Testing and to some degree unstable are _tested_ environments,
with parts that is known to work together.. I would say thats a whole lot
more stable than what you are proposing. If you are already using XFree4.1
and linux2.4, I suggest you apt-get upgrade to testing and apt-get Kde2.2
from unstable.. This far the safest and what the testing and unstable are
meant for.
I hope I can stop some of all this silly backporting thats going on. Stable
is not stable if you install weird hacked packages from unstable!!
`Allan
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