Entries Tagged as 'KDE'

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

Debian packages for KDE 4.1, KOffice alpha9 and more

In the beginning of this week, KDE 4.1 RC 1 was released and, of course, there are Debian packages since the release day. The instructions I blogged about how to install the beta1 (and downgrade) still mostly apply, although the version of the KDE 4 RC1 is 4.0.98. The Debian KDE Team website has finally [...]

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

Update on KDE 4.1 packages for Debian

There will not be Debian packages for KDE 4.1 beta 2. Last week, beta 1 was replaced in experimental by a snapshot of the revision 819867, and beta 2 was tagged at revision 821791, so it is not a huge difference. I have no idea when we will do the next update for the KDE [...]

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Let’s go for KDE 3.5.9 in Lenny

Update: We have decided going for KDE 3.5.9 in Lenny. Some days ago I sent a proposal to the Qt/KDE Packaging Team discussion mailing list proposing to ship KDE 3.5.9 in Lenny. You can read my email and the whole thread generated from here. I would love hearing opinions, specially from stable users about what [...]

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

How to install KDE 4.1 beta 1 from experimental

The first beta of KDE 4.1 was released a couple of days ago, and of course, we did upload packages to experimental. It is finally time of encouraging users to try KDE 4. So here are some instructions of how installing KDE 4 and how going back to KDE 3.5 if you feel like KDE [...]

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Quick KDE 3 and 4 update

KDE 3.5.9 was released a couple of weeks ago and it is not yet in unstable. You might think the reason is because the KDE team is lazy, and actually we are, but the true reason is we could not upload it until we fixed some problems with Qt3. It will be uploaded from tomorrow, [...]

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers group picture

Debian KDE Meeting. Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain, 15th December 2007. Top, from left to right: Modestas Vainius, Sune Vuorela. Sitting, from left to right: Armin Berres, Ana Guerrero, Fathi Boudra. P.S: Still pending send a mail about the decisions taken in the meeting :)

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

KDE 4.0 rc1 “Calamity” in experimental

The first Release Candidate of KDE 4.0 has been released today \o/. The most important and interesting packages are already available from experimental. If you want to try them, point your sources.list to experimental and install kdelibs5 kdepimlibs5 kdebase kdebase-workspace kdebase-runtime extragear-plasma kdegames kdeutils kdegraphics kdeedu. While I write these lines, kdebase-workspace and kdebase-runtime are [...]

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

Lenny with KDE4? I do not think so

The first version of the KDE4 desktop series, KDE 4.0 is planned to be release in December, 11th 2007 and our releases managers are aiming to release Lenny in September. Given that there are some months between releases, this seem to lead a lot of people to think Lenny will be released with KDE4, but [...]

Monday, August 6th, 2007

The KDE4 dance

Aug 06 Archive Adminis ( 20) Processing of kde4libs_3.92.0.dfsg.1-1_i386.changes Aug 06 Debian Installe ( 74) kde4libs_3.92.0.dfsg.1-1_i386.changes is NEW Finally, the first component of KDE4, kdelibs has been uploaded to experimental. And it is waiting at NEW at this moment. Hopefully, kdepimlibs will be uploaded soon. About the rest, sorry, I have not idea :)