-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 14 January 2004 08:42 am, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Dear All, > i'm new to debian. Recently I strongly made up my mind to leave > Redhat/Fedora and be a user of Debian. I'm pretty happy with it's > structure and utilities. I'm also glad to see the release structure > (stable, testing, unstable) which suits to the taste of every user. > > the stable release seems rock solid. but packages like kde are very > outdated. how do i upgrade the kde packages (testing release). what > lines do i need to add into my /etc/apt/sources.list > > plz give a brief overview. > > ritesh
If you want to keep a Woody system intact, you need to use backports of whatever packages you want, packages compiled with the Woody developement environment. There is a kde.org source that will give you KDE 3.1.4 compiled for Woody. This is, may be close to a concensus, the best way to get newer packages for Woody. This may be the current site for KDE. http://ftp.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/Debian woody main Another backport site I have had good luck with is : deb http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian woody/bunk-1 main contrib non-free HTH - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFABg89k7rtxKWZzGsRAtEMAKCai10sjGJtF0sBBnbQztS6pU4y+wCfRGrJ G5Jq+eL31UDZzPfC4Pqmf1s= =W/Ub -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
