Date sent: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 05:11:27 -0400 From: Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Copies to: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: KDE/Qt Status in Debian dists
> Just bypass the whole package manager, download the source, compile and > install. This way when you decide to upgrade you won't have to worry about > qt-kde getting broken unless some of their support libraries change. And > even if that does happen, it would just mean that you would need to > recompile & install. > > Sean > > > Terry Hancock wrote: > > > Hi, > > I've installed the "Hamm" (=2.0) distribution of Debian Linux from CD, > > and I intended from the start to install KDE as quickly as I could, but > > Debian has since gone to "Slink" (=2.1). > > > > On the Hamm CDs, the "Qt" library required by KDE is not included for > > licensing reasons. However, the Troll Tech website claims the newer > > versions of Qt are "free" software, apparently resolving previous > > licensing conflicts. (?) > > > > The Qt library debian package _is_ on the FTP site, but unfortunately, > > when I try to update the package from there using dselect, I get a > > cascade of dependencies -- basically dselect wants to upgrade my whole > > system to the Slink distribution. This would be okay, except for the > > downtime. > > > > I'd prefer to get the "Slink" CDs, but will the Qt library be on them? > > > > I have little time to work with this computer, and I fear that if I get > > Slink, "Potato" will be out before I get the Qt package, and I'll be > > back where I started. :) > > > > Also, can you get dselect to _downgrade_ your packages? I've now got > > some kind of mixture of Hamm and Slink packages on this system, and I'm > > not sure how stable that is. I wish dselect gave you a little more > > control, but I haven't quite figured out how to do everything with dpkg. > > > > Would appreciate any help at all, thanks! > > > > Terry Hancock > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi team, I downloaded the slink debs from ftp://ftp.de.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/1.1/distribution/deb/slink/binary-i386. I downloaded qt1g 1.42 debs from unstable. I don't recall other dependencies, the rest of the dependencies I think were in the kde debs. So if you load in correct order kde will be up and running in no time. A whole lot less than getting gnome running. Only one set of dependencies external to kde My system is hamm. cheers, Mike
