[SOLVED] KDE 3.5 on Slackware64-13.0

ryan858 · 09-09-2009, 02:03 AM

While I appreciate the great work that's been done on KDE4, it's just too buggy for me still. I want my old KDE3 back... But I'd still like to be able to mess around with KDE4 and learn a bit about it.

Is there any way to install KDE3 alongside 4? Or do you pretty much have to overwrite everything?

Either way I need to get KDE3 installed on my 13.0 64bit... I can live with not being able to keep kde4 if need be. But how should I even go about getting KDE3 on here?

Thanks for any tips and advice!

Ramurd · 09-09-2009, 02:27 AM

There have been other threads about this in the past few days, search for Melkior's posts, he has posted several times about it and seems to have a way to get back to kde3.

foodown · 09-09-2009, 03:26 AM

Check this link:
http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4.x

This article describes how to build KDE 4 from source to run in tandem with KDE 3 on a system which is native version 3. You could likely use the same basic technique to build KDE 3 to run alongside 4 on Slackware 13.

vince4amy · 09-09-2009, 07:04 AM

If you get a bit of time, try installing KDE 4.3 (You'll have to download some other packages that it depends on though) that is a huge improvement over KDE 4.2.

Woodsman · 09-09-2009, 11:31 AM

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If you get a bit of time, try installing KDE 4.3 (You'll have to download some other packages that it depends on though) that is a huge improvement over KDE 4.2.

Please provide some instructions for building 4.3.x. using the Slackware build scripts. Thanks!

vinegaroon · 09-09-2009, 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Woodsman

Please provide some instructions for building 4.3.x. using the Slackware build scripts. Thanks!

Here are some packages with source/slackbuilds included.

Edit: These aren't my packages but I have tried them.