Hi,

I am trying to install the 3.5 version of kdebase. It is still unstable, but i want to be "irresponsible" and still run it anyhow.

I checked dselect, and i was unable to select any unstable packages.

What is the trick here? How can i Download these unstable packages?

PS: the packages were listed on the debian website.

THANKS

Are you trying to download them to your Slackware machine, or do you also have a Debian system? If you have Debian, you just have to change your sources.list

You need to have a line for unstable in your sources.list hopefully already running testing because if running stable then it is not going to work. Then to install apt-get install -t unstable kdebase ..... the ..... representing a whole lot of other packages that you will have to put on the line to get it done, you know which ones you need when apt complains about them not being installed or not at proper version number to be installed.

I will try this on my Debian machine when I get home. I will duplicate the lines for stable and replace stable with unstable, make adjustments if i see the need, run "apt-get update", and then "apt-get -t unstable kdebase", and see how it works.

Rickh, I am running Debian at the moment. I forgot to update my profile. I just updated it. Thanks for the reminder.

If you set your sources to unstable, dselect will install newer package than what you have. If you want to install just one unstable package, you go to http://www.debian.org into the packages link. You can download single packages there. Or, you can try changing your apt sources to unstable, and use apt-get to upgrade KDE. I highly do not recommend debian's system for installing just one package from a different debian distro than what you have. I would anticipate you will be tearing out your hair trying to get all the dependencies correct. A third option is to change your sources to unstable in synaptic, and **don't** click "mark all upgrades". Then, pick kdebase for the unstable KDE, and synaptic might pull it off, maybe. Just think, someday we won't have computers anymore.

No that is not going to work you may as well just dist-upgrade to unstable it will probably be less of a mess you need to be running testing to have enough of the packages in common to install the newer KDE. If you want you can try the line below which will get you 3.5.0 for KDE that has been built for stable/sarge.

Assuming you are running Sarge, moving to a new version of KDE is probably going to cause some headaches. HappyTux's suggestion to use backports is a good one, but if you want to do it right, you ought to drop back and punt. You should also be using xorg instead of xfree86. KDE 3.5 is in Testing as well as Unstable. Hobbyists should be using testing (Etch) rather than Sarge.

My suggestion would be that you do a complete new install using Etch and the new beta-3 netinstall. You'll have Etch up and running in an hour or less. If you don't want Gnome at all, don't select "Desktop" when it gets to the end asking what "Tasks" you want. When the system reboots, you'll get a system prompt. Log in as root, and 1st, edit /etc/apt/sources.list to comment out the CDROM as a source, then "aptitude install xorg" Next, "aptitude install kde kdm" (or if you don't want the full blown kde "aptitude install kde-core kdm"

I like people to have a good experience with Debian, and I think that's more likely to happen if you don't try to force a new KDE into an old OS (Sarge).

I didn't know that you can install kde that easily, without having to install gnome at all. My motto is relatively simple: "If gui, then gui".

I will most definately start playing around with the guis when i get home.