Clive Menzies wrote:
Unless you're using it in a server environment, it's preferred to use testing rather than stable. Testing is perfectly stable for the end user, and protected servers. I use unstable on my desktop with little or no problems, and Sarge is more than fit for the desktop. The easiest way to move to KDE 3 from stable is to move to sarge. To upgrade to sarge simply change all instances of "stable" to "testing" in /etc/apt/sources.list, and do "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade". Sarge has, last time I used it, KDE 3.1 (It may be 3.2 or something now), and unstable has 3.3; they're both fit for workstation and PC use :-) (Unstable just isn't garunteed to be that way all the time)On (23/03/05 11:04), Joel Lopez wrote:I'm a linux/debian newbie. I'd like to upgrade kde and in the future any other packages to versions higher than the one's that apt-get finds. Is there any easy way to do this? Any good how-to's anywhere? Thanks, Joel
<rant>Alot of Debian newbies get hung up on this, when they think of the stable 'release' as what the general public should use. Really the only thing, from my point of view, that stable is good for is servers, and I don't even use it for that :-P. Woody, for example, has KDE 2. Most KDE 3 users can't stand a downgrade of that magnitutde, and want KDE 3. But "testing" sounds like a more intimidating version, full of minor glitches and hastles. That's more what 'unstable' is like; testing is all but hastle-free :-). I'm a little more adventerous, and have two Sid boxes, plus a Sarge server and another Sarge box - shell only. I've never had a problem worth mentioning :-).
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