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I did a dumb thing today... I typed pacman -Syu and I discovered my desktop was overwritten with kde 4.buggs. I really don't have the time to try to work through all the new "Features/bugs" and I was wondering if there is an easy way to undo this tragic mistake and revert back to kde 3.xx. Please help!!! Thanks!!!
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Under /var/cache/pacman/pkg/, you have all your previous packages. You just need to pacman -U those packages you want. After that, you might want to add IgnoreGroup = kde in the pacman config.
Cheers
Last edited by whargoul (2008-08-01 21:44:51)
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Well, you could search the forums for the other four or five threads that have been discussing this, or you could just go here:
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Well, you could search the forums for the other four or five threads that have been discussing this, or you could just go here:
Thanks.... by the way, exactly what search parameters did you use to find that thread? I tried searching and never located it... I also scanned this desktop area and didn't find it... I guess I was unaware that I should look in announcements to find a solution to a desktop issue.
Thanks again!
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There's the now closed thread which as of this writing is about ten threads down. And it's intermixed with a lot of the 'KDE 4.1 killed my pet monkey' threads (or something like that).
Anyway, I would recommend using KDEmod. It will be maintained so pacman -Suy isn't going to break to your system.
Last edited by skottish (2008-08-01 21:51:46)
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Well, I went to the thread that was linked and entered the following as directed
pacman -S kdemod3-complete
The response was
error: 'kdemod3-complete': not found in sync db
Not really that helpful afterall!!!
Also, it seems that I don't have all of the necessary packages in my cache to revert using Pacman -U xxxxx
So again I ask, is there and EASY way to revert back to 3.xxx I've already spent more time on this than I would have liked.
By the way when I do a search on "revert kde 3.5" I get two hits
Kmail changes in3.5 prevent log-in to server
KDevelop 3.3 is crashing by mico
Neither of which have anything at all to do with reverting back to kde 3.5
Last edited by atomclock (2008-08-01 22:13:03)
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Did you add the kdemod repo to your mirrors list?
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Did you add the kdemod repo to your mirrors list?
No, I didn't... I'll give that a try...
Thansk! That seems to be working!!!
Last edited by atomclock (2008-08-01 22:16:49)
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Glad to help atomclock.
I think that you'll really like KDEmod. When I was still using KDE, it was a perfect fit for me.
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wow - thanks so much to the kdemod team for maintaining the kde 3x packages...
imo, kde3 is a great balance of simplicity, design and enough automation for novices like my wife to use it alone.
When kde4 booted up it felt just like when I fired up a pre-intalled vista on my notebook. It looked kind of pretty but I had no idea what was going on.
I have other petty gripes (konsole looks terrible, kdm won't let you choose a console login and you have to click 5 different icons just to shut down) but I can forget them now.
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Mmm, dunno about that.
Logout: Ctrl-Alt-Del (or any other shortcut you wish)
Konsole can be tweaked to your liking: colours, transparency, fonts and cursor behaviour. Actually I find it easier to configure than the KDE 3 console.
And the plasma workspace may take 15 minutes to get used to the widgets concept, but it works beautifully.
I find that Arch's implementation of KDE4 works better than Suse's, and feel quite happy with it for now...
True, I have not been able to login to console via kdm, but if you choose the failsafe option you get an xterm.
EDIT:
Of course, logging into the console is easily achieved by hitting Ctrl-F7 in the login screen. Duh....
Last edited by Xinix (2008-08-02 10:20:27)
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