2) download packages and install them in order as specified in: http://www.geniussystems.net/KDE3 Experimental/ http://www.unc.edu/~crimsun/kde3-unofficial/ (mirror) use "dpkg -x " to unpack
3. Create symlink as root ln -s /usr/local /opt
4. copy/move /kde3 to /opt (we dont need the doc directory)
5. Create a session profile for your gdm/xdm/kdm etc...
if you're using gdm, under /etc/gdm/Sessions, cut&paste the following lines in a new file "KDE3" (make sure it's chmod to executable) ----------------- export KDEHOME=$HOME/.kde3 export KDEDIR=/opt/kde3 export PATH=/opt/kde3/bin:$PATH export PREFERRED=/opt/kde3/bin/startkde exec startkde ------------------
6. copy/link your .kde dir to .kde3 to keep import your settings
7. copy/link your global icons/color directories: ln -s /usr/share/icons/ /opt/kde3/share/icons ln -s /usr/share/apps/ksplash/ /opt/kde3/share/apps/ksplash
or old color schemes cp /usr/share/apps/kdisplay/color-schemes/QNiX-* /opt/kde3/share/apps/kdisplay/color-schemes/
to remove, just wipe out the /opt/kde3 directory and remove the /etc/gdm/Sessions file.
This is definately the hard way!
This is the easy way:
add
deb http://kde.ping.uio.no/i386 ./
to /etc/apt/sources.list run apt-get update as root, and just apt-get install whatever you need :) (notice that these are also experimental debs, but they work fine for me. for other mirrors and readmes, check out irc.debian.org and read the topic on #debian-kde )
I tried the's packages, and while I definately appreciate the effort put into making these packages, be very careful with them. they are really memory hungry (possbily memory leaky as well, but I'm not at liberty to prove that). Response time to button presses on a celery 500 with 256 megs was sometimes over 30 seconds for me, and I eventually ran out of swap space, crashing the system. These are very beta, and if you have to get real work done, dont use em.
Add no-generate-sessiontypes to your kdm.options (/etc/kde2/kdm/kdm.options) and kde3 to SessionTypes in kdmrc.
Then put the lines
-------
#!/bin/sh
export KDEHOME=$HOME/.kde3
export KDEDIR=/opt/kde3
export PATH=/opt/kde3/bin:$PATH
export PREFERRED=/opt/kde3/bin/startkde
exec startkde
-------
in a file, name it kde3, chmod +x and place it in /usr/bin.
Debian declined to package KDE-3 at the moment because they are in the middle of holding presidentail elections and KDE3 is unstable, not suitable for a high quality distro yet.
Which is more than I can say for some unnamed segfault-during-the-install distros :) *cough* gentoo *cough*.
Just use a distro like Gentoo, Slackware, et al that already has these
or just do it yourself.
So much for Debian being the most up-to-date and bleeding-edge distro, hrm?
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This is definately the hard way! This is the easy way: add deb http://kde.ping.uio.no/i386 ./ to /etc/apt/sources.list run apt-get update as root, and just apt-get install whatever you need :) (notice that these are also experimental debs, but they work fine for me. for other mirrors and readmes, check out irc.debian.org and read the topic on #debian-kde )
post stuff like this in the appropriate places !!! Cheers, Bernd.
I tried the's packages, and while I definately appreciate the effort put into making these packages, be very careful with them. they are really memory hungry (possbily memory leaky as well, but I'm not at liberty to prove that). Response time to button presses on a celery 500 with 256 megs was sometimes over 30 seconds for me, and I eventually ran out of swap space, crashing the system. These are very beta, and if you have to get real work done, dont use em.
Add no-generate-sessiontypes to your kdm.options (/etc/kde2/kdm/kdm.options) and kde3 to SessionTypes in kdmrc. Then put the lines ------- #!/bin/sh export KDEHOME=$HOME/.kde3 export KDEDIR=/opt/kde3 export PATH=/opt/kde3/bin:$PATH export PREFERRED=/opt/kde3/bin/startkde exec startkde ------- in a file, name it kde3, chmod +x and place it in /usr/bin.
Debian declined to package KDE-3 at the moment because they are in the middle of holding presidentail elections and KDE3 is unstable, not suitable for a high quality distro yet. Which is more than I can say for some unnamed segfault-during-the-install distros :) *cough* gentoo *cough*.
Segfault during install on Gentoo? What the devil did you do wrong, eh?
Just use a distro like Gentoo, Slackware, et al that already has these or just do it yourself. So much for Debian being the most up-to-date and bleeding-edge distro, hrm?