upgrading KDE

Hello, i want to upgrade kde 3.1 to some newer release via aptitude but if i make
"u" i do not
find it among upgradable packages, only among installed ones.
How can i achieve this?

Thankx

If you mean that you want to upgrade kde to the latest version 3.4 you can add this link to your sources.list:

deb http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.4.0/ ./

The next update en dist-upgrade will give you KDE 3.4

Thank you, but i think that dist-upgrade makes an upgrade of all the upgradable packages according to my sources.list, now what if i'd like to upgrade only some packages? e.g. kde or other?

A tad more complicate. You need to edit your /etc/apt/preferences and set the alioth source to a high pinning number for all kde* packages.

details here:
http://forum.libranet.com/viewtopic....hlight=kde+3+4

in the preferences section, instead of '*' use 'kd*' and that should do the trick

Note that apt will most likely upgrade a whole bunch of other packages since kde will more than likely require them.

Originally posted by powadha If you mean that you want to upgrade kde to the latest version 3.4 you can add this link to your sources.list: deb http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.4.0/ ./ The next update en dist-upgrade will give you KDE 3.4

Hi,

I tried this and it upgraded some packages to the 3.4 version but kdebase and kdeartwork are being held back. When I try to install them they produce broken dependancies. I tried apt-get -f install, to no avail. Is there something else needed to upgrade?

Used this source and it worked:

deb http://people.debian.org/~killer/amd64/ ./


....so far.