Re: KDE

["Terry Henderson" <trryhend@gmail.com>]

On 8/30/06, Alejandro Exojo <suy@badopi.org> wrote:
> El Miércoles, 30 de Agosto de 2006 14:32, Terry Henderson escribió:
> > I found that KDE had somehow lost all application entries from it's
> > Kmenu and was told I might be able to fix that by just updating KDE,
> > which I did.
> >
> > So, the bottom line is that I updated a lot of stuff and at some
> > point, it seemed as if I was fixing things, but things took a downward
> > turn and lost KDE functionality.
>
> If you removed the backports.org entry, you can try to remove all installed
> packages from there (ask for help if don't know how), including

How?

 KDE. If you
> get rid of all packages from backports, you can install KDE from a safe
> source again.

Not sure which ones I need to get rid of.  (Did not make a list and
don't know for sure what all was installed.)
Maybe there's some method to finding which ones were installed from backports?


> And if you need up to date KDE and openoffice, maybe you can just dist-upgrade
> to testing (etch) or unstable. I'm not using it, but I think it's close to
> being frozen.

Is this correct?:
apt-get dist-upgrade etch

> Greetings.
>
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