Re: Getting KDE 3.1

From: Andreas Janssen (andreas.janssen_at_bigfoot.com)
Date: 08/30/03

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Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 19:15:33 +0200

    Hello

    William Bradley (<bradleyw@magma.ca>) wrote:

    > On Saturday 30 August 2003 09:45 am, Andreas Janssen wrote:

    >> William Bradley (<bradleyw@magma.ca>) wrote:
    >>> On Friday 29 August 2003 04:15 am, Andreas Janssen wrote:
    >>>> [Getting KDE 3 backports from ftp.kde.org]
    >>>
    >>> I did the above and when I updated the etc/apt/souces.list I opened
    >>> access to the security updates from Debian.
    >>>
    >>> When I did the apt-get update and apt-get upgrade, nearly three
    >>> hours of upgading (on my dialup system, I live in the country) went
    >>> on. After that I did "apt-get upgrade kde" and some upgrading
    >>> seemed to go on. After it was finished I re-booted Debian but as
    >>> far as I can see it is still KDE 2.2.2. I did apt-get upgrade
    >>> konqueror and it is still the 2.2.2 version. Am I missing something
    >>> somewhere.
    >>
    >> Use apt-cache to check installable versions:
    >>
    >> apt-cache policy konqueror
    >
    > "apt-cache policy konqueror" Gave the following:
    >
    > konqueror
    > Installed: 4:2.2.2-14
    > Candidate: 4:3.1.3 - 0woody1
    > Version Table:
    > 4:3.1.3 - 0woody1 0
    > 500
    > ftp://ftp.kde.org woody/main packages
    > ***
    > 4:2.2.2-14 0
    > 100 var/lib/dpkg/status

    It seems apt knows about the new packages. However, it seems strange to
    me that the source for the original package from Woody is not listed.

    Did you already try:

    apt-get dist-upgrade

    best regards
            Andreas Janssen 

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