KDE 3.1 is in woody has ne1 tried it?

**RockMumbles** · 01-30-2003, 08:59 PM

topic pretty much says it all ...

I'm was wanting to go to kde 3.1 but it's only out for the stable (woody) branch. I was wondering if anyone has tried it, and their success rate?? I have a dial-up so I don't want to mess things up trying something new and end up spend most of a day upgrading then removing and reinstalling 3.04, so ...

TIA

rock

**freyley** · 01-31-2003, 03:53 AM

Hi,

Yes, I just installed Knoppix on my laptop and immediately updated to KDE 3.1 (I hated the lack of tabbed browsing in konquerer =).

I had a few problems with it erroring out because of overwriting issues, all of which were solved with either:

dpkg --force configure -i /var/cache/apt/archives/<package name>

or

dpkg --force overwrite -i /var/cache/apt/archives/<package name>

depending on what the error was. once this is done, return to the install with apt-get -f install and then apt-get dist-upgrade when until the dist-upgrade no longer does anything. It took me a while, although it downloaded everything first and then did it all from disk when I was having problems.

Jeff

**RockMumbles** · 01-31-2003, 09:11 AM

Thanks I am using Konqueror in KDE 3.1 from my knoppix box to post this "Thank you"! Without your help with the dpkg --force overwrite -i filename I wouldn't be using it right now!!

I couldn't get the dpkg --force configure -i ...to work so I used dpkg --force overwrite -i ...and then dpkg --configure -a.

Thanks a bunch, I have some font problems but I still have a bunch of files that need to be upgraded, I used apt-get intall kdebase to get started, and now I need to get everything up to KDE 3.1.

BTW on my system by just upgrading kdebase Helmet was about the only readable font, almost everything else was a hard to read script font, but all should be well tomorrow morning after an apt-get upgrade.

Thanks again,

rock

**BionicToothpick** · 01-31-2003, 02:42 PM

Please explain in detail...what you do to update to kde3.1 after the knx-hdinstall script has completed.

Do you need to edit your /etc/apt/sources.list
Is it apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
....

Thanks...

**jonatan** · 01-31-2003, 02:51 PM

hi!

just trying to do the same,
why do i need dist-upgrade?

what is it exaclty doing?

thanks,

jonatan

**tuxtom** · 01-31-2003, 03:08 PM

IMHO is kde 3.1 only in the woody/stable distro of debian (cause of some version conficts with the gcc compiler).
Maybe it works, if you downgrade the system to woody:

comment all testing & unstable lines in /etc/apt/sources.list
replace APT:

efault-Release "testing";
by APT:

efault-Release "stable"; in /etc/apt/apt.conf

then do

Code:

# apt-get update
# apt-get dist-upgrade

and

be patient - hundreds of packages will be replaced.

I didn't downgrade to woody, but upgraded to sid/unstable some months ago - it worked.

tom

**RockMumbles** · 01-31-2003, 03:33 PM

You have to edit your sources.list to get the debs from a kde woody mirror, www.apt-get.org is a good source for finding URI's for sources.list.

Be advised, there is quite a bit of manual intervention required to get the woody kde 3.1 debs working in Knoppix 3.1. You will have about 10 or so files that refuse to install, without forcing them to overwrite, on my computer I probably spent at least an hour (maybe almost 2) messing around getting things to install, if you can't get everything to install you'll have part 3.1 and part 3.04 (a mess).

What I did was apt-get install kdebase from a kde mirror then forced the install for each package that had overwrite errors using the dpkg --force overwrite ???? for each file that had install errors. Then you need to apt-get dist-upgrade to get the rest of the necessary packages. dist-upgrade will get any necessary packages that are needed when going from one version to another such as libraries etc.

Note: at this time my fonts are still all messed up and I only have two or three usable fonts in my knoppix install, on my woody based system at work KDE 3.1 installed perfectly and works fine (woody packages on a woody system).

rock

**jonatan** · 01-31-2003, 04:37 PM

I just installed some kde 3.1 .debs, now my problem is i cannot start kde.

i am using gdm2, and it was using a default session, which brought up kde ..

i used gnome while updating my system to kde 3.1, now the session has gone

where should i add my kde session?

thanks for the help,

jonatan

**RockMumbles** · 01-31-2003, 08:39 PM

Hello,

Your gdm sessions should be in /etc/gdm/Sessions sometimes I've had problems with gdm not using a link ie. KDE is usually a link in /etc/gdm/Sessions to /etc/kde3/debian/KDE-gdm-session so I've copied the KDE-gdm-session file over to the gdm/Sessions directory and renamed it KDE. Then you may have to reconfigure gdm to use the new KDE session. On my system since the upgrade, I think "debian" is my gdm KDE session.

HTH

rock