Re: KDE/Qt Status in Debian dists
Just bypass the whole package manager, download the source, compile and install.
This way when you decide to upgrade you won't have to worry about qt-kde getting
broken unless some of their support libraries change. And even if that does happen,
it would just mean that you would need to recompile & install.
Sean
Terry Hancock wrote:
> Hi,
> I've installed the "Hamm" (=2.0) distribution of Debian Linux from CD,
> and I intended from the
> start to install KDE as quickly as I could, but Debian has since gone to
> "Slink" (=2.1).
>
> On the Hamm CDs, the "Qt" library required by KDE is not included for
> licensing reasons.
> However, the Troll Tech website claims the newer versions of Qt are
> "free" software,
> apparently resolving previous licensing conflicts. (?)
>
> The Qt library debian package _is_ on the FTP site, but unfortunately,
> when I try to update
> the package from there using dselect, I get a cascade of dependencies --
> basically dselect
> wants to upgrade my whole system to the Slink distribution. This would
> be okay, except for
> the downtime.
>
> I'd prefer to get the "Slink" CDs, but will the Qt library be on them?
>
> I have little time to work with this computer, and I fear that if I get
> Slink, "Potato" will be out
> before I get the Qt package, and I'll be back where I started. :)
>
> Also, can you get dselect to _downgrade_ your packages? I've now got
> some kind of
> mixture of Hamm and Slink packages on this system, and I'm not sure how
> stable that is. I
> wish dselect gave you a little more control, but I haven't quite figured
> out how to do everything
> with dpkg.
>
> Would appreciate any help at all, thanks!
>
> Terry Hancock
> hancock@earthlink.net
>
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