Re: Status of KDE 3.1 in 'unstable'

[Daniel 'Doc' Sewell <debian_sparc@thezealot.net>]

That did the trick!  I have almost all of KDE 3.1 installed and 
running!  It looks great!


Doc Sewell

On Sunday, Jul 13, 2003, at 04:34 US/Central, Pieter-Paul Spiertz wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Ben Collins wrote:
>
> > > I thought by moving to 'unstable', I could get KDE 3.1.  But when I
> > > tried to update, I got this message below.
> >
> > Looks like some packages are not yet built for sparc. Just means 
> > you'll
> > have to wait. It is "unstable" :)
>
> These packages are krita and kuickshow. And the packages koffice and
> kdegraphics that they're part of, are actually meta-packages. You can
> safely install all subpackages in it, omitting krita and kuickshow,
> and you'll have a working kde3.
>
> On one machine, I had to symlink /usr/local/share/applnk to
> /usr/share/applnk before it would correctly display koffice icons,
> and before QT3 Designer would work, I had to follow #182189.
>
> Apart from that, I think it works fine.
>
>
> Regards,
> Pieter-Paul
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Daniel 'Doc' Sewell
debian underscore sparc at thezealot dot net