Information about Debian KDE packages.


Contents:

A: Overview

B: FAQ & Installation

C: Other Info



A: Overview


1) Debian/KDE Overview

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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

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B: FAQ & Installation


2) KDE 3.2 FAQ (woody)

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3) KDE 3.2 FAQ (sid/sarge)

Note: As of 2004-02-19, the correct line seems to be

 deb http://people.debian.org/~ccheney/kde-3.2.0/ ./
 deb http://people.debian.org/~bab/kde-3.2 ./

Mirror update:

 deb http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/software/kde-unstable-debian/kde_head/ unstable/

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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"].

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, kdepim, kdeprint,kdesdk, kdetoys, kdeutils.

Sid [aka unstable]

Sarge [aka testing] (using sid debs)

As of 20-Feb-2004, the current version of KDE on DebianTesting is finally installable again.

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]

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C: Other Info


5) Other Questions:

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

If you get an error about missing Qt libraries when compiling programs for ["KDE3"] on Debian, try running configure with the following option:

   --with-qt-includes=/usr/include/qt3

If this still doesn't work, and you definately have kdelibs-dev and libqt3-compat-headers installed, try reading the [http://opendoorsoftware.com/cgi/http.pl?p=["DebianQTChecklist" "Qt-Trouble" document]] or asking on debian-kde@lists.debian.org for help.

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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.

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

Already available for woody with this line in /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://www.opensides.be/debian woody main

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8) I have a question not covered here:

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9) Other documents:

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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.

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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:

I think it might be valueable to the KDE community if this was done. It would allow readers to see who has made the updates useful to them. Perhaps also it would be a nice convention for persons who create or make any substantial update to any section of this page to add their name to a list of updaters at the end of each section, like this:

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