OK, I admit that I am quite confused ;> I have googled and read and gone to kde.org, and I come away with the silly notion that I can have a woody system, including kde v3.1x. I have gone through debian-user archives, and I come away _confused_ about whether or not I can have kde v3.1x *without* going to un-stable ;< Empirical evidence appears to corroborate that confusion. Note, I had this in /etc/apt/apt.conf: APT::Default-Release "stable"; Finally, I read and tried this (from woody): sudo apt-get -t unstable install kdebase kdm Yes, now I do have the v3.1x login and desktop. Yes, it does look better, as I hoped; and, yes, it is quite a bit less piggy on the system resource front. No, konqueror crashes and will *not* run; nor will kspread nor kwrite nor any koffice app run ;< Yes, I have rebooted. So, next I did this: apt-get upgrade which upgraded an enormous pile of apps, ostensibly due to the changes thrust upon my system by the `-t' install? However, koffice apps still crash. Now, tonight, I have gone to this: APT::Default-Release "testing"; Then, I did this: apt-get upgrade When that did *not* fix the problem, I did this: apt-get dist-upgrade So, now I am at testing and koffice apps will not run. I am very leery about going to unstable. Testing is a stretch for me, since this system on which I am experimenting is my pilot and testbed for several servers and workstations under my supervision. I prefer to remain confident that all of these systems are solid and secure, and my understanding of unstable leads me to believe that that maybe too great a risk, at this time . . . Bottomline, can kde v3.x be *simply* and *reliably* introduced to woody systems? To testing? What am I missing? What do you think? -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 877.596.8237 - Dare to fix things before they break . . . - Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . --
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