Re: latest kde 3.1.2
On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 04:49:32PM +0100, David Marsh's listreading hat wrote:
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> Hi Dave,
>
> [Interleaved comments: please read right to end of message]
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> On Wed, 21 May 2003 17:02:38 +0200
> Dave Lister <dave@birko.cjb.net> wrote:
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> > All you have to do (as I did and everything works ok) is to manually
> > download KDE's complete Arts 1.1.2-0 (using an ftp client) and WOODY's
> > version of libvorbis0. Remove any installed Arts and all (currently
> > installed, Sarge's) libvorbis dependencies. And "dpkg -i *.deb". That
> > should do it. Maybe you will have to give up something, what depends
> > on libvorbis, but that's the price you pay :) As far as I know, I
> > didn't have to remove any other package because of that dependency.
> > Just libvorbis's -dev, which you probably don't have installed at all.
> >
> > For any further questions, just ask. Hope this helps. It needs just a
> > bit of tweaking.
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>
> *Many* thanks, this seems to have done the trick!
> I now seem to have arts and libvorbis happy with each other (I hope) and
> am downloading the rest of the KDE debs as I type..
>
> Thanks again, you saved me from a reinstall: I was this close to
> thinking 'try another distro' which comes with a more up-to-date KDE
> (than KDE2). It's a shame that the pace of KDE development and Debian
> development seem to be so out of sync, so that we're left with very old
> versions of KDE without these little tweaks and hassles..
I'm really happy to be of any help. It takes time, but sooner or later,
one finds out that Debian is just the best distro out there :o)
Actually Debian/KDE is not out of sync. KDE officialy releases binary
packages only of _stable_ versions and _only_ for stable distros. If you
had Debian Woody (stable) you wouldn't have had any problems. You see,
Sarge is Debian's testing version...
Regards,
Dave
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