Re: KDE 3?

["Paul Cupis" <paul@cupis.co.uk>]

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On Tuesday 08 October 2002 19:11, Gianfranco Berardi wrote:
> My roommate is using Mandrake on his system, so he has KDE 3.0. I am
> using Woody, but I tried to apt-get install kde, and I got version 2.*
> instead of 3.0.
> Is it not packaged yet? Do I have to download/compile it myself? Not
> that it would be a problem, but I am just wondering if I am going about
> it all wrong by expecting it to be apt-get-able.

KDE 3 is not part of Debian 3.0 'Woody' and never will be. Futher, KDE 3 is 
not in Debian proper, as it is stalled waiting for the Debian development 
branch ('sid') to convert to using gcc 3.2 as the default compiler.

However, unofficial KDE 3 packages are available, and there are a set of 
packages available for Woody.

These packages, whilst they reportedly work well, are experimental and 
unofficial.

You can get the KDE 3 packages for Woody by adding

  deb http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody ./

To your /etc/apt/sources.list and following the instructions in the FAQ at 
http://www.davidpashley.com/debian-kde/faq.html

You are also advised to read/search the list archives at 
http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde for advice/information.

If you have read all the above information but are still having trouble 
installing KDE 3, either join the #debian-kde IRC channel on irc.debian.org 
(Freenode/OPN) or mail this list (debian-kde@lists.debian.org) will a full 
and verbose explanation of your situation and the problem you are 
encountering.

Regards,

Paul Cupis
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paul@cupis.co.uk


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