Re: KDE 3.5.6

["Cédric Boutillier" <cedric.boutillier@gmail.com>]

Thank you very much James and Didier for your answer !

Aptitude is really a nice tool !!!
I added the line proposed by James in /etc/apt/apt.conf (see his
message below) to avoid unwanted upgrade from experimental.

Cedric, a new happy 3.5.6 KDE user ;)

On 2/8/07, James Stark <jstark@ieee.org> wrote:
> Your best bet would be to do something like:
>
> aptitude -t experimental
>
> as root, then select the packages that you want to upgrade.  As a rule you
> don't want to upgrade to experimental.
>
> For this to work, the experimental distribution should be in
> your /etc/apt/sources.list.
>
> If you need to add it, you'll want to tell apt to use unstable as the
> default distribution.  To do so, put the following entry
> in /etc/apt/apt.conf:
>
> APT::Default-Release "unstable";
>
> James
>
> Cédric Boutillier wrote:
>
> > Hi !
> >
> > What is the recommended way to upgrade to KDE 3.5.6 ? There should be
> > something better than downloading all the packages with wget, and then
> > install them by hand with dpkg.
> > Could you give me some tips here ?
> >
> > Thanks !
> >
> > Cedric
> >
> > On 1/26/07, Jan De Luyck <ml_debiankde_20060213@kcore.org> wrote:
> >> On Thursday 25 January 2007, Ana Guerrero wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > KDE 3.5.6 has been released today and it is available in experimental.
> >> > It has been uploaded to experimental due to the Etch freeze, if you run
> >> > unstable, you can install it safely in your system.
> >
> >