> > Has somebody installed KDE 3.0 in a Debian box locally and suceeded?. > > I compiled it on Tuesday and it worked, I also followed the same web page. I've succeeded with the same instructions, too. A small addition to the women.kde.orgs article: you can try/develop (still rather unstable) KDE3 simultaneously with KDE 2.2 like this: # su # X :1 & # exit # export DISPLAY=:1 # /usr/local/kde3/bin/startkde # <press CTRL-ALT-F8> - Jarno