Re: How to keep KDE at 3.5 in Sid installations.

2009-05-24 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 24 May 2009 20:24:43 Alejandro Exojo wrote: > El Miércoles, 20 de Mayo de 2009, David Baron escribió: > > I am running Sid-installed kde4 and compiled kde3.5 with out a hitch. The > > appropriate startkde scripts set env variables and /etc/profile sets > > PATHs appropriately. > > Can you

Re: How to keep KDE at 3.5 in Sid installations.

2009-05-24 Thread Alejandro Exojo
El Miércoles, 20 de Mayo de 2009, David Baron escribió: > I am running Sid-installed kde4 and compiled kde3.5 with out a hitch. The > appropriate startkde scripts set env variables and /etc/profile sets PATHs > appropriately. Can you please give some information about how you did that? I know how

Re: How to keep KDE at 3.5 in Sid installations.

2009-05-21 Thread Frederik Schwarzer
On Thursday 21. May 2009 23:38:17 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 20 May 2009 16:22:34 Mike Bird wrote: Hi, > > We can no longer run Testing anywhere. Eventually I expect we'll run > > into video driver problems on new hardware but thus far we've been OK > > with Lenny. > > Hopefully by then

Re: How to keep KDE at 3.5 in Sid installations.

2009-05-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 20 May 2009 16:22:34 Mike Bird wrote: > We can no longer run Testing anywhere.  Eventually I expect we'll run > into video driver problems on new hardware but thus far we've been OK > with Lenny. Hopefully by then XFCE will be fully usable. It is well on the way. Nowhere near as ni

Re: How to keep KDE at 3.5 in Sid installations.

2009-05-20 Thread David Baron
The most effective way would be to compile it. Then the kde3 stuff is in /usr/local or /opt or wherever you choose to put in but not in /usr. I am running Sid-installed kde4 and compiled kde3.5 with out a hitch. The appropriate startkde scripts set env variables and /etc/profile sets PATHs

Re: How to keep KDE at 3.5 in Sid installations.

2009-05-20 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed May 20 2009 03:40:48 David wrote: > > That won't work anymore, KDE 4.2 is in testing. > > Thanks, noted. I'll probably downgrade my KDE package versions to > Lenny, but keep the rest on Sid, for as long as I can, and then either > downgrade everything to Lenny, try KDE 4.2 again (maybe I can

Re: How to keep KDE at 3.5 in Sid installations.

2009-05-20 Thread David
> That won't work anymore, KDE 4.2 is in testing. > Thanks, noted. I'll probably downgrade my KDE package versions to Lenny, but keep the rest on Sid, for as long as I can, and then either downgrade everything to Lenny, try KDE 4.2 again (maybe I can get used to it and work around all the problems

Re: How to keep KDE at 3.5 in Sid installations.

2009-05-20 Thread Modestas Vainius
Hello, On 2009 m. May 20 d., Wednesday 13:10:23 David wrote: > My solution, for keeping my machine on the latest Sid, except for KDE, > which stays on testing (for the moment), is to run a command like > this: > > sudo aptitude dist-upgrade $(cat dist_upgrade_vers.txt) > > Where dist_upgrade_vers.

How to keep KDE at 3.5 in Sid installations.

2009-05-20 Thread David
Hi, this has probably been discussed hundreds of times before, and everyone is tired of the arguments by now, but I thought I might be able to contribute something, for people who want to use Sid, but stay with KDE 3.5 My personal preference, is to run Debian Sid on my personal PCs, but not KDE 4.