Re: Upgrading kde

[Robert Kellner <kellner.robert@gmx.net>]

On Wed, 9 Apr 2003 21:06:39 +0200
Marc Hinrichs <fuffzig@marcfuffzig.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have Woody installed and have upgraded to testing. Now I want to upgrade my 
> kde 2.2.2 to kde 3.1 without upgrading to unstable in general. Could anyone 
> tell me, what is the easiest and safest way to do this?
> 
> Marc
> 
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I did it this way, and found it worked well for me:
add a server, that has the kde 3.1 packages for woody:
My university has it (you may find a faster mirror)

deb ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/X11/gui/kde/stable/latest/Debian stable main

I think the package-naming is different, so you may want to remove the
old kde and install the packages from the new server (look
in /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.uni-bayreuth.de_pub_X11_gui_kde_stable_latest_Debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages)
If you want to install  everything from the new apt source, you can do it like this:

apt-get install `cat /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.uni-bayreuth.de_pub_X11_gui_kde_stable_latest_Debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages | perl -e 'while (<STDIN>) { chomp; s/Package://g && print; }'`

But this may be a loohhoot of packages to install.

Greetings,

Robert