Quote Originally Posted by PattiMichell View Post
Is there a way to get KDE3 on Knoppix 6.2? I'm reading the Knoppix Hacks book, and it keeps referring to things like drive icons on the desktop and all the easy configurations that are gone with KDE4. And though pretty, KDE4 just isn't as flexible as KDE3, so I'd like it back

TIA!
Patti
Hello! I'm afraid that book's a bit dated, though of course still nice to have, and very useful with the older Knoppix release. Drive icons are now within the File Manager, pcmanfm (big folder icon on the toolbar.) What configurations were easy before and hard now? Maybe we can point you to something that seems less than obvious.

I agree with you, KDE-4 seems like a step in a strange direction, but LXDE is sweeter and faster, IMHO. FWIW, when I opened the Synaptic package manager and did a Search from the toolbar icon for KDE, I saw some KDE-3 stuff (that wasn't installed.) It depends on which repositories you have enabled, of course, but if you don't see it there then a bit of Googling, plus knoppix desktop=kde should do the trick.

Keep up the good work and let us know how it goes.

Cheers!
Krishna
p.s. You can also download packages manually, and if you want to use a GUI tool to install them, just start gdebi from the LXterm window (also on the toolbar, near the file manager.) There are also the command line tools apt-get and good ol' dpkg, plus aptitude. I recommend the Wikipedia article if you'd like to know more than I do about that!