Re: kdelibs3.3 and kdelibs3.4
On Monday 18 July 2005 10:08 am, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> Benjamin Sher wrote:
> >Dear friends:
> >
> >I upgraded Debian from Sarge to Etch several days ago. I then did a full
> >upgrade (apt-get upgrade). ALL of my sources in sources.list are labeled
> >ETCH. No stable and no unstable. Just etch. So, there shouldn't be any
> >incompatibility issue. But I noticed in Synaptic the presence of both
> >kdelibs3.3 and kdelibs3.4. Is this all right or is there something wrong?
> > As a newbie, I don't know what to make of it.
>
> It is perfectly fine to have multiple versions of the library. In fact
> (others will correct me If I am wrong) that is one of the advantages of
> shared libraries - they allow multiple versions of the library to reside
> on the same system.
>
> That being said, you will also have a package called kdelibs. kdelibs
> will depend on the current default of Debian. So that, when you install
> kdelibs, it will automatically pull the current default. When Debian's
> default is upgraded, it is just enough to upgrade kdelibs.
>
> Moral of the story is, install kdelibs if you have no preference between
> kdelibs3 and kdelibs4.
>
>
> raju
>
Dear raju:
Thanks so very much for the reassuring words. Very happy it's all OK.
Benjamin
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