Installing KDE 3.3.1 on Debian Sarge

Anmol · 12-13-2004, 06:03 AM

Hello All,

Can some1 help me installing KDE 3.3.1 on Debian Sarge. I have 3.2.1 right now. I tried changing my sources.list but in vain. Here is my sources.list file

##deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Sarge_ - Official Snapshot i386 Binary-1 (20041121)]/ unstable contrib main

#deb ftp://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/linux...utions/debian/ testing main
#deb-src ftp://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/linux...utions/debian/ testing main

#deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib
#deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
#deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
#deb ftp://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/kde/stable/3.3.1/Debian unstable main contribnon-free

deb http://ftp.debian.org unstable main
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free

Hope someone can help me.

Thanks

Anmol

m_yates · 12-13-2004, 03:50 PM

If you want to keep using Sarge, you should create a preferences file in /etc/apt/preferences with:

Code:

Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 600

Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=testing
Pin-Priority: 650

That way, not every package on your system will be upgraded to unstable, only those you select. It will always select testing packages first, even if it is an older version.

Then create a sources.list file that has both testing and unstable sources in it:

Code:

deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
deb ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security testing/updates main contrib non-free

Then do:

Code:

apt-get update

To install a package from unstable (like kde 3.3.1):

Code:

apt-get -t unstable install kde

That should install kde and all required dependencies from unstable. Hope that helps!