Re: How to install KDE 4 to lenny?

[Rich Healey <healey.rich@gmail.com>]

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Jamin Davis wrote:
> Andrius wrote:
> 
>> how to install KDE 4 to lenny from iso disc image?
> 
> Assuming you mean the demo KDE 4 live cd you can't. KDE 4 is in
> experimental, there's some doc on
> http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/experimental.html which explains how to
> install it on a lenny/unstable system.
> 
> I compiled my KDE 4 from the SVN sources and TBQH it's still quite
> unstable. YMMV.
> 

I'm using it, you'll need to add experiemental and unstable to your
apt_sources and then pin them down so you don't get upgraded.

apt/sources.list==

deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib
deb-src http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib

deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib

deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ experimental main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ experimental main non-free contrib

deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian unstable main non-free contrib
#deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib
non-free

and

apt/preferences ==

Package: *
Pin: release a=lenny
Pin-Priority: 900

Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 499

Package: *
Pin: release a=experimental
Pin-Priority: 501

I'm sure that with tweaking the Package: directive could be made better
for kde4, but this works for me. Regards

Rich Healey
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