On Thursday 05 December 2002 9:48, Stephen Birch wrote: > I guess I don't get this. > > The advantage of debian over all other distributions is meant to be the > ease of upgrades. Indeed, it is VERY well done, the apt mechanism is a > beautiful piece of software engineering. > > So how come kde isn't trivial to upgrade? > > In my new user naivety, I would have thought you could just add the kde.org > site to sources.list and apt-update/apt-upgrade. > > But I see a number of postings about all kinds of complicated issues. > > I gave it a try myself, and ended up with a horrible mess.
You *do* have to follow directions if you are ever going to install unofficial packages. I've made the same mistake and have paid dearly for it. The official unofficial Debian-KDE is located at: http://davidpashley.com/debian-kde/faq.html An excellent resource for all your KDE on Debian needs. -- Scott C. Linnenbringer finger sl at eskimo.com
