Re: Upgrade to KDE 3.1

[Johan Ehnberg <johan@ehnberg.net>]

Sharninder wrote:

> > If you just have the debs, and only want to update one machine,
> > the  right way is to download the debs and install the using
> > dpkg.
> > Then to keep up to date you might want to add the repository from
> > where  you got the packets from to your sources.list.
> >
> > deb http://download.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/Debian/
> > woody main
> >    
>
> as i said .. i have already mirrored the
> ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.1/Debian/* hierarchy using wget -c -r
> ...Now i want to use this to install kde3.1 to my desktop. There are
> more than 250MBs of debs. Can't I just give the name of some
> metapackage like kde .. and install everything.
> Sharninder Singh
> National Institute Of Management, Calcutta
>  
Oh, sorry I understood you wrong. This should mean that you also have the requred packages and release files. The line

deb ftp://[your server]/[location of mirror root] woody main

Should do the trick. I have never tried making a personal mirror myself though.

Then install the kde metapackage and whatever else you want.
apt-get update
apt-get install kde [and whatever...]

hth,
/johan

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