Re: Safe to upgrade my KDE 3.3.2 to v3.4?
2005/10/9, Phillip Pi <ant@zimage.com>:
> Hello! I am still using KDE v3.3.2 on my Debian (Kernel 2.6.12-K7) box. I would like to upgrade
> to 3.4 if possible, but I was told that it is not ready weeks ago. Is it still not ready?
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> I still run into dependency issues that I am worried about like these:
> # apt-get install udev
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> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> hotplug
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> Note: I think I need hotplug for USB Flash sticks/drives?
hotplug support is integrated into udev now. Read udev's changelog for
more information.
> # apt-get install licq
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> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> licq-plugin-qt
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> Note: I actually upgraded, and my Licq broke.
Install licq-plugin-kde
> # apt-get install xserver-common
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> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> xserver-xfree86
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> Note: Is this safe? I still XFree86 and NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4200 with the latest NVIDIA driver
> from nvidia.com.
Xorg + nvidia drivers don't work worse than with XFree here.
> # apt-get install k3b
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> The following packages will be REMOVED:
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> Note: Sounds scary! Removing a lot of stuff too.
Nothing is removed but replaced by packages with new names which was
necessary because of the C++ compiler transition process.
> If it is still not time to do a full upgrade, when will it be? A few more months?
I had no problem with the current KDE so far. At least there seem to
be not more bugs than in older KDE packages. ;)
Take a look at the docs, especially for the new udev-package, because
the configuration of hotplug changed.
Björn
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