Hello,
I updated to KDE 4.3 by accident, (my sources.list had etch but a mirror I use gives me sid as well-I don't know why). Today I wanted to add kompare and apt wants to upgrade all kde stuff again about10+hrs of downloads on my slow dial-up, plus it wants to remove openoffice which I don't want to loose. I don't want to have to go to sid in everything (I noticed openoffice 2 is in sid). Can anyone help me in going back to KDE 3.5? Even pakages like quanta and guarddog are affected and I updated them once before I figured out KDE 4.3 was not an etch package. Or can I look for an older package of kompare and install that? Yes, I'm still a newbie. Thanks.

I think you are confused. The most recent KDE is 3.5---there is no KDE 4.3.

Did you downgrade from 3.5 to 3.4 and now want to go back?

Just get your apt list the way you want it, open synaptic, reload the packages list and upgrade.

In etch (what I run too) the version of KDE is 3.5.

zomg it's that guy from the future!

i wanted to say that.

Well if you have not cleaned your apt cache then you would change to the /var/cache/apt/archives directory then you can get a list of all the packages in there with the 3.5 in their names then use dpkg -i package1-3.5.deb package2-3.5.deb package3-3.5.deb ..... till you end up with one long command with all the 3.5 packages on it hit the enter key to install them all.

Thanks Happy Tux & Optimistic. I saw the 4:3.4.3-3 in kpackage and figured it was version 4.3.4.3-3 but looking in the archive as you suggested I see it is 3.4.3-3 (yes?) What does the leading 4 mean? I like Linux and I am thankful for the hard work that folks put into making it available and helping people learn it. I'll keep learning.