On Wednesday 12 November 2003 07:42 pm, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:19:52AM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> > You're right, there's a partial transition from kde2 to kde3 in
> > sarge. Neither are usable if you install a new system now.
> > (unless you go to unstable)
>
> It's definitely a problem blocking the release at the moment, of
> course.
I came up with the following solution from posts to this list
(including Colin's), and from some debian documentation
(http://wiki.debian.net/?DebianKDE). First, I got a snapshot of the
libsensors package. Then I set up a local directory to hold
downloaded deb packages such as this one, and put a file: entry below
my cdrom: and http: entries in my sources.list, so apt tools find it.
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(1) Downloaded libsensors-1debian1_2.7.0-6_i386.deb from ...
http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2003/06/24/debian/pool/main/l/lm-sensors/libsensors-1debian1_2.7.0-6_i386.deb
(2) As root:
mkdir -p /var/cache/apt/storage/debs
mv libsensors-1debian1_2.7.0-6_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/storage/debs
cd /var/cache/apt/storage/debs
dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null > Packages
gzip Packages
(3) Add the following line to the bottom of /etc/apt/sources.list
deb file:/var/cache/apt/storage/debs ./
(4) Now when you use aptitude (or whatever), KDE3 should install.
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When libsensors-1debian1 appears in http://http.us.debian.org/debian
testing, aptitude will find it there.
If I ever want to download or create individual deb's, I can put
them in /var/cache/apt/storage/debs, and use the dpkg-scanpackages
and gzip commands above to refresh my local deb package database.
David Crane