Suresh, That's a huge task I found. But worth it. I'm not really the best person technically to help you with this, but...i'd be disrepectful to the kind others on this list that helped me get kde3 working on my system. So i'll give it a bash - pun intended(bash = aussie slang for 'give it a try). 1. Firstly edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file to include the line: deb http://people.debian.org/~schoepf/kde3/woody ./ Make sure you do it exactly like that. Also, if you have multiple CD lines in there, i'd comment them out using your favourite editor. Just put a # in front of the lines starting with deb cdrom... 2. Then remove kde 2.2 from your system. Firstly, to check what packages are on your system try this: dpkg -l | grep 2.2.2 Note that *not* everything with the output of this command will be for kde - it looks for 2.2.2. 95% was for me though. Try this command to remove the current kde on your system: apt-get --remove purge libarts kde* It mostly worked for me, leaving a few left other kde files. I don't know if that will work for you or not. Each system is inherently different. At this point i'd run the dpkg -l | grep 2.2.2 command again at a term to see *what is left*. I had several files left to remove and Thomas Schoepf from the KDE user lists kindly made up a shell script to help me remove the rest of the files (I wasn't totally sure what could go and what should stay). I've attached the shell script to this email, i'd *strongly* suggest reading the shell script' contents and comparing that to what packages for kde you might have left on your system (and obviously editing the shell script to suit your needs). Please note that with the shell script attached you will need to: chmod u+x and then run it as ./purge202.sh (just in case you didn't know that - i'd rather give *too* much information than not enough) Hopefully after this, all kde 2.2.2 files will have been removed from your system. We can now try to update to kde 3.0.3. Please note that with Thomas' .debs you will not need to go down the testing/unstable route. You can keep the default setting of stable for woody, and there will be no need to create a /etc/apt/preferences file or pinning etc. Please also note that QT is included with Thomas' kde packages, so no need to have that (qt 3) on your system. I'm not sure what the outcome would be if you have already installed qt on your system. 3. We can now and try to upgrade to kde 3.0.3. Try this command at the command line please. apt-get update Once that is done we can try: apt-get -d dist-upgrade Now I found that this didn't work for me...so Thomas suggested using dselect to do the job. And I switched to dselect. This is the instructions Thomas gave to me on using dselect: "1. start dselect (obvious) 2. select [A]ccess and verify that "apt" is selected. (Pressing "X" exits that screen again, losing changes) 3. Run [U]pdate. If the .debs are still in /var/cache/apt/archives, apt will not download them again. If there are errors, please show them to me. 4. Choose [S]elect (pressing the Space key will get you out of the help screen, but that's described in the help itself, of course :) ) 5. Hit Enter. If there are any dependency problems, dselect will show a screen telling you that (hit Space again to get out). Now you should see the missing/conflicting dependencies that dselect complains about. (Pressing "-" marks a package for removal, "+" for install). And watch closely for the packages dselect wants to remove. Sometimes, it's not very smart and tries to remove libc6 which usually is not a good idea, but I don't expect that to happen here. Hitting enter again, will accept the changes (or show the same procedure again, if there is still something wrong) 6. Run [I]nstall and apt should download the remaining packages and install/remove all pending packages." Please note that as Thomas pointed out to me: When selecting packages "+" and "*" do the same. dselect always shows that * Now at this point I had problems downloading files - i'd get a size mismatch error. I'm not sure why, neither is Thomas. Anyways...Thomas advised me to check the cache for apt. That is in: /var/cache/apt/archives and also /var/cache/apt/archives/partial Thomas advised me that sometimes the .debs in the partial sub dir could be corrupted and it would be best to remove them. So i'd manually go in there and remove them and try doing the dselect process again. Each time i'd go thru the process with dselect that was outlined above. After several attempts at this it worked and it installed a base kde system on my debian box. 4. After doing this, you should have a base kde 3.0.3 system on your debian box. Check this by: dpkg -l | grep 3.0.3 I'd also strongly suggest checking the kde meta packages as well, as at this point I *only* had the base system, none of the meta packages at all. Check by doing this for each meta package: dpkg -l packagename Meta package names are (please note that there are a few missing metapackages in this version of kde 3.0.3 - namely kdeartwork, kdebindings, kdevelop and kdeedu): kdelibs kdebase arts kdeaddons kdebindings kdegames kdegraphics kdeutils kdemultimedia kdenetwork kdeadmin kdetoys I do suspect that they won't be installed. If they are not, it's simple from here. Just run: apt-get install metapackagename. Simple eh? I'd suggest doing the following meta packages first (in this order): arts kdelibs kdebase Then do the rest in any order *except* for kdeaddons - do that one last (as it requires other meta packages to be installed first). note: I had the size mismatch issue again doing the apt-get...and I applied the same workaround to it - I removed all .debs from /var/cache/apt/archives/partial directory and ran the apt-get install for that particularly metapackage again. After a few tries it works and starts installing and setting it all up. Do this for *each* metapackage that you want to install. I'd suggest doing them all whilst you're on a roll. This should do the trick and get it all onto your debian system for you. In the end, when all is done, check: dpkg -l | grep 3.0.3 One final note comes to mind: Make sure kdm is installed: dpkg -l kdm If it is all is good, if not apt-get install it. 5. One final thing - check the file default-display-manager in /etc/X11 It should read: /usr/bin/kdm that's if you wish to make kde the default graphical display manager...I presume so. 6. I don't think i've missed anything (hey I had to troll thru many, many emails from Thomas to piece this together and i'm human...so...). If I have missed something, my apologies. Email me. Ask me, if I know the answer i'll help. 7. KDE rocks! Enjoy. Dave -----Original Message----- From: suresh kumar sharma [mailto:suresh_kr_sharma@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, 3 October 2002 4:10 AM To: debian-kde@lists.debian.org; David Pastern Subject: How to upgrade from kde2 to kde3 hi, I have a debian 2.2 / woody with kde2 running on my latop , I want to upgrade it to the latest realease of kde. How can I do that ?? thanks in advance. suresh __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? 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