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Re: KDE SC 4.9.5 on wheezy howto?



On Saturday 09 February 2013 01:28:33 dh wrote:
> Jakub and others have updated Wheezy to KDE sc 4.9.x, so apparently this
> can  be done w/out building from scratch. I was wondering if there is a
> (somewhat current) howto somewhere.

Let me (try to) give you one on the spot.

If you don't have Debian at all:
1. Download Debian Installer (d-i) Beta4 from 
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ and write it to a medium you can 
boot from
2. Install Debian with that d-i and it'll install Wheezy straight away. In the 
software selection screen, _deselect_ 'Graphical desktop environment', since 
that will install GNOME by default. I usually only keep 'Standard system 
utilities'. This will give you a very basic Debian system, even without X.
At the end of the installation, boot into this very basic Debian system.

3. Edit your /etc/apt/sources.list and add repository lines for sid (copy wheezy 
line and change wheezy for sid) and experimental-snapshots (taken from the qt-
kde.debian.net site)
4. run 'aptitude update' and after that 'aptitude safe-upgrade' to get your 
system updated to the latest versions

5. Install KDE by doing 'aptitude install kde-standard' (or kde-full or kde-
plasma-desktop and add other packages you'd like). 
Also install the pkg-kde-archive-keyring package.
6. Upgrade to KDE SC 4.9.x by running 'aptitude full-upgrade -t experimental-
snapshots'

HTH,
  Diederik


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