Information about Debian KDE packages.

WARNING!

Beware using this page as the information seems to be outdated, I would not recommend using it to install a recent version of KDE as it would probably break your system.

WARNING!


Contents:

A: Overview

B: Getting and Installing KDE 3 FAQ

C: Other Info



A: Overview


1) Debian/KDE Overview

|| <<END ||

 kdestable=`lynx -dump http://packages.debian.org/stable/x11/kde || grep Package: || sed -e 's/.'''(\([^\)]'''\).*)''\1'''` 
 kdetesting=`lynx -dump http://packages.debian.org/testing/kde/kdebase || grep Package: || sed -e 's/.'''(\([^\)]'''\).*)''\1'''` 
 kdeunstable=`lynx -dump http://packages.debian.org/unstable/kde/kdebase || grep Package: || sed -e 's/.'''(\([^\)]'''\).*)''\1'''` 
 echo KDE Stable ["Woody"] version: $kdestable 
 echo KDE Testing ["Sarge"] version: $kdetesting 
 echo KDE Unstable ["Sid"] version: $kdeunstable 

END



B: Getting and Installing KDE 3 FAQ


2) Getting KDE 3.2.2 FAQ (woody)


3) Getting KDE 3.3 FAQ (sid/sarge)

There are NO current KDE CVS packages available.


4) Installation

If you want to use KDE as the display manager on a workstation or laptop, you need to have installed the X Window System before installing KDE.

Install the kde package if you want the whole of ["KDE3"].

  apt-get install kde

Install the kde-core meta-package to get a minimum KDE install [arts, fontconfig, kdebase, kdelibs]:

  apt-get install kde-core

If you go for kde-core, you may also want some of kdeaddons, kdeadmin, kdeartwork,kdeedu, kdegames, kdegraphics, kdemultimedia, kdenetwork, koffice, kdepim, kdeprint,kdesdk, kdetoys, kdeutils.

The KDE Display/login Manager kdm is nice to have installed as well. You can get it with:

  apt-get install kdm 

Sid [aka unstable]

Sarge [aka testing] (using sid debs)

If you want to get the latest KDE packages from sid (on a testing system):

   Package: *
   Pin: release unstable
   Pin-Priority: 600

Woody [aka stable]



C: Other Info


5) Other Questions:

I can't compile KDE programs - it can't find Qt libraries.

A very common problem when compiling KDE programs (or other ones which use Qt), is that the configure script, is unable to find where Qt is, and failing with a message like this:

     checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.1.0) (headers and libraries) not found. Please check your installation!

This problem can mean different things:

least) libqt3-mt-dev and qt3-dev-tools. If during compilation, the build fails because a file is missing (for example, qlist.h), this means this software is using obsolete headers. Please, report this fact to the developers of this software, and to complete the build, install libqt3-compat-headers.

the exact path to the configure script this way:

   --with-qt-dir=/usr/share/qt3

Since this is a bit annoying if you are compiling lots of applications, make that the environment variable QTDIR points to /usr/share/qt3 (in bash: export QTDIR=/usr/share/qt3).

If this still doesn't work, and you definately have the packages mentioned above installed, try reading the ["Qt-Trouble" document http://opendoorsoftware.com/cgi/http.pl?p=["DebianQTChecklist"]] or asking on debian-kde@lists.debian.org for help.

When you are debianizing a package you may create a debian/ directory with:

    dh_make -t /usr/share/doc/kdelibs4-dev/dh-make


6) #debian-kde - The IRC channel

What and where is #debian-kde?

#debian-kde is the ?FreeNode IRC channel for discussion of Debian and KDE. (A list of ?FreeNode servers can be found [http://freenode.net/irc_servers.shtml here].) Feel free to come in and ask for help troubleshooting a problem not covered here in the wiki or in the FAQ. But be sure that it's not before asking, as questions that are will be ignored, at best.

Nobody answered my question, why?

Maybe you were really irritating while asking it. Maybe the answer is already here or in the FAQ or easily available at the other end of a Google search. Or, maybe nobody who knows the answer was in the channel at the time you asked it. Or, maybe people are asleep/busy. People do have lives outside of irc.

Try waiting for a while (an hour or two) to see if anybody knows the answer. Don't repeat the question unless it has been a long while and several new people have entered the channel.


7) I want to help, what can I do?


8) I have a question not covered here:


9) Other documents:


10) Mailing lists:

There are at least four mailing lists used by Debian KDE maintainers.

Conversations are scattered randomly between these lists, plus occasional other ones (orth's kdecvs list, etc.). Thus, trying to get a consistent, coherent answer on any topic from the maintainers is just about impossible. They're far too busy tracking bugs in an old, out-of-date version to answer you.


11) Updating the DebianKDE wiki page:

If you'd like your name, not your IP address, to be listed in the changes list at the bottom of the edit page, and on the RecentChanges page, when in the edit mode for this page, do this: