KDE Update problem

[NotJustANewbie]

Hello.

My problem:
Im using Debian Sarge (stable) with KDE 3.3.2 and I wanted to upgrade to 3.4

So... using Synaptic Package Manager, I updated my repositories for the unstable release of KDE 3.4
I went to the KDE section in Synaptic and highlighted to update KDE to 3.4. I clicked apply and it was all running smoothly until there was an error in the terminal emulator integrated into Synaptic that explained that something was wrong.

Scrolling up, I couldnt find any errors in the process log.
Confused, I rebooted the system and KDE went back to 3.3.2 (not suprisingly). But accessing the control center in KDE 3.3.2, there are no options apart from Peripherals. I have no idea what to do now.

Is there another way of installing a new KDE 3.4? without from the desktop, because it was a stupid idea I admit to trying to upgrade while under KDE 3.3.2.

Any ideas or other methods of upgrading KDE please, all positive replies will be much appreciated.

[happybunny]

I have yet to find instructions that work for a kde upgrade on debian...can you pass along the repositories you are using?

Also, apt-get install kdebase from the cli *should* work.

My understanding is that doing so will not upgrade EVERY aspect of KDE, like kdearts, etc. There is no "meta-data" in the apt system so simply doing a apt-get install kde wont work.

http://davidpashley.com/debian-kde/faq.html

should help....but again...could you post your /etc/apt/sources.list for me?

Thanks
Happy

[NotJustANewbie]

I was using this site http://lists.debian.org/debian-qt-kde/2005/04/msg00172.html.

Instead of cutting and pasting to the source file, I manually added the repositories to the Synaptic repository list section.

[happybunny]

thanks, but that doesn't work for me.

I added those repositories, but apt-get install kde-base fails with many dependancies that say "Wont be installed".

Is this another "your running debian unstable so it wont work" situations ?

[Parcival]

I'm not familiar with Debian at all, but in Gentoo I was able to upgrade KDE while I was inside KDE. After the successfull emerge all I had to do was to restart X and log back in. So looking at how the discussion goes and without any intimate knowledge of Debian I'd say that happybunny is right.

[timothykaine]

Yes, Sid is pretty much completely broken right now in the switch to GCC 4, KDE 3.4, xorg, etc

Use these repositories and comment out your unstable repos in your etc/apt/sources.list file

http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.4.0
http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.4.1

[happybunny]

fyi....must at least add ./ to the end of those lines, right?

also...now that they are there, what next? just apt-get install kdebase?

doing so just gets a bunch of dependancies "but they are not going to be installed".

[psych-major]

I'm not familiar with Debian at all, but in Gentoo I was able to upgrade KDE while I was inside KDE. After the successfull emerge all I had to do was to restart X and log back in. So looking at how the discussion goes and without any intimate knowledge of Debian I'd say that happybunny is right.

Same for me with Slackware:
swaret --upgrade kde -a
All the packages associated with kde were upgraded and it found and resolved my dependancies for me, then a simple logout/login without rebooting and I was up on 3.4!

[NotJustANewbie]

Thanks for all the advice. I have, however, gone for XFLD hard disk install on my very s-l-o-w laptop. If I have any future problems with XFCE (which is unlikely) I'll know where to come and ask!
Thanks again