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Re: Debian
by Leo S on Tuesday 20/Nov/2007, @14:19

They are only in experimental. However you can run them very easily. Add the experimental repos to your sources.list, then start aptitude with aptitude -t experimental, and upgrade all your KDE packages to 3.9.96. When I upgraded from KDE3 to KDE4 beta 3, it more or less hosed my KDE installation, and I had to force some packages to install manually with dpkg. However it is getting better and better, so soon you should be able to run all the KDE3 apps side by side with the kde4 versions.

At the moment, most of RC1 is there.. Still waiting for oxygen icons package to be able to upgrade kdebase, but everything else upgraded fine.

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Re: Debian
by Moritz Moeller-Herrmann on Tuesday 20/Nov/2007, @16:26

Do kmail and digikam (both KDE3) still work if I upgrade to KDE4 in Debian?

What do you mean by "hosed"?

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Re: Debian
by Leo S on Tuesday 20/Nov/2007, @16:37

Hosed as in "I had to uninstall a lot of KDE3 apps because they conflicted with KDE4 packages". Not sure if this is still the case

Seems like digikam and kmail can be used side by side with KDE4. Not 100% sure because I don't use them myself. However some apps (yakuake for example) will not conflict but will no longer run (crashes on start).

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Re: Debian
by G2g591 on Saturday 08/Dec/2007, @08:55

now the only conflicts are kcontrol, kdebase-bin-kde3, kdesktop, kformula, and kpersonalizer. Oh and the oxygen icon package is now in experimental also. I intend to be totally insane and go fully experimental and unstable.

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Re: Debian
by Sepp on Wednesday 21/Nov/2007, @08:56

Thanks, I'll try it that way, then. I currently have a fresh install anyway, so if things go seriously wrong, I can wipe my HD and start again...

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