OK, I admit that I am quite confused ;> I have googled and read and gone to kde.org, and I come away with the silly notion that I can have a woody system, including kde v3.1x.
I have gone through debian-user archives, and I come away _confused_
about whether or not I can have kde v3.1x *without* going to un-stable
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Empirical evidence appears to corroborate that confusion.
Note, I had this in /etc/apt/apt.conf:
APT::Default-Release "stable";
Finally, I read and tried this (from woody):
sudo apt-get -t unstable install kdebase kdm
Yes, now I do have the v3.1x login and desktop. Yes, it does look
better, as I hoped; and, yes, it is quite a bit less piggy on the system
resource front.
No, konqueror crashes and will *not* run; nor will kspread nor kwrite
nor any koffice app run ;<
Yes, I have rebooted.
So, next I did this:
apt-get upgrade
which upgraded an enormous pile of apps, ostensibly due to the changes
thrust upon my system by the `-t' install?
However, koffice apps still crash.
Now, tonight, I have gone to this:
APT::Default-Release "testing";
Then, I did this:
apt-get upgrade
When that did *not* fix the problem, I did this:
apt-get dist-upgrade
So, now I am at testing and koffice apps will not run.
I am very leery about going to unstable. Testing is a stretch for me,
since this system on which I am experimenting is my pilot and testbed
for several servers and workstations under my supervision. I prefer to
remain confident that all of these systems are solid and secure, and my
understanding of unstable leads me to believe that that maybe too great
a risk, at this time . . .
Bottomline, can kde v3.x be *simply* and *reliably* introduced to woody
systems? To testing?
What am I missing?
What do you think?
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