Re: KDE 3.1.1

[Stephen Cormier <scormier@inbox.lv>]

On April 8, 2003 11:19 pm, Darryl Barlow wrote:
> I have been using Linux for about 3 years now, and after trying a number of
> distributions settled on Mandrake which I am running on a number of
> machines, and I am very happy with.  However, I am now sampling the
> pleasures of Debian, having just installed Woody from CD's on one box.  A
> bit more work than Mandrake, but balanced to some extent by the philosophy
> of a minimal install with packages added only as needed.  I haven't fallen
> in love with it yet but I can see how people do.
>
> However, I have decided that I want KDE 3.1.1.  On Mandrake I compiled this
> (with the aid of Konstruct) in the absence of suitable rpm packages.  I am
> prepared to do the same on Debian, but thought I would try to upgrade with
> apt.  I tried the binaries on KDE and added the source to
> /etc/apt/sources-list.  I then tried to do an upgrade and later a
> dist-upgrade but found a large number of packages were held in both cases.
> In fact, apt wanted to remove a far larger number of packages than it
> wished to install.  I suspect this is a product of my own ignorance of
> Debian Package Management, an ignorance which I will probably not get the
> time to eliinate until the weekend.  I will probably either try using apt
> to upgrade Woody to the version of KDE in unstable, or perhaps upgrade to
> testing (an 80 mb download via dial-up 56k modem) followed by installing
> the unstable KDE packages.  I suspect the second alternative may well work
> fine, but the first?
>
> If anyone can point me in the right direction to solve the problem it would
> be much appreciated.
>
> regards,
>
> Darryl Barlow

Try adding this to your sources list I used it this past weekend to upgrade 
woody to kde 3.1.1 and everything went fine. This was from a fresh install.

deb http://ktown.kde.org/~nolden/kde/ woody main

I don't know if this is what you used but everything worked for me.
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May the source be with you!

Stephen Cormier