Note: KDE 4.7.4 is now (2011 12 20) available in Debian Experimental
After months of idling at KDE 4.6.5, the Debian-KDE team has made 4.7.2 available in the Experimental repositories. Unfortunately, KDEPIM apps such as KMail are still not ready for Debian:
You need to be running a fully-updated Debian Sidon AMD64 (aka x86-64 aka x64) to successfully install these packages, and be willing to experience possibly more breakage than Debian Sid itself provides. Sure, Sid treats us well, but if you're not willing to take the chance, I suggest you wait. If you're OK with running Experimental packages and not having the newest KDEPIM yet, let's install KDE 4.7.2 on Debian x64! UPDATE: i386 packages are now available.
First, upgrade your system to the newest Sid has to offer:
Second, add these repositories to your file at /etc/apt/sources.list:
Third, update your catalog to include the new repository:
Fourth, install the key to trust these packages:
Finally, install your packages by defining the release with the -t flag:
Log out of KDE and from the KDM menu (where you log into KDE), restart the X11 Server and then log into your KDE 4.7.2! Or, you can reboot the full computer, but that is overkill.
How well did this work? How do you like KDE 4.7.2? Please leave us some results! UPDATE: i386 packages are now available.
After months of idling at KDE 4.6.5, the Debian-KDE team has made 4.7.2 available in the Experimental repositories. Unfortunately, KDEPIM apps such as KMail are still not ready for Debian:
From: José Manuel SantamarÃa Lema
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 16:35:55 +0200
While developing the 4.7 packages our fellow developer Eshat Cakar experienced some important problems with kmail.
On the other hand, kdepim 4.4.x wasn't tested against 4.7 by upstream KDE developers (unlike what happened with the 4.6.x releases). Therefore, this may raise some new bugs. In hope that we are choosing the lesser of two evils, we are skipping kdepim 4.7 for now.
Last but not least, note that kdepim developers work on one of the most "dangerous" module (this module can chew users' data if there are important bugs) so be patient with them, they deserve our respect.The package maintainers absolutely deserve our respect; packaging software isn't an easy task.
You need to be running a fully-updated Debian Sid
First, upgrade your system to the newest Sid has to offer:
# aptitude update
# aptitude dist-upgrade
Second, add these repositories to your file at /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://qt-kde.debian.net/debian experimental-snapshots main
deb-src http://qt-kde.debian.net/debian experimental-snapshots main
Third, update your catalog to include the new repository:
# aptitude update
Fourth, install the key to trust these packages:
# aptitude install pkg-kde-archive-keyring
Finally, install your packages by defining the release with the -t flag:
# aptitude -t experimental-snapshots upgrade
Log out of KDE and from the KDM menu (where you log into KDE), restart the X11 Server and then log into your KDE 4.7.2! Or, you can reboot the full computer, but that is overkill.
How well did this work? How do you like KDE 4.7.2? Please leave us some results! UPDATE: i386 packages are now available.
1 comments:
I will install the latest KDE on my Ubuntu, thank you for share how to install it.
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