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kdar

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From: Sweet home Alabama!

Registered: 2009-06-27

Posts: 356

Install latest KDE 4.4 version? How?

How do I install KDE 4.4? I really want to try it.

I have KDEmod now, 4.3.
Would I need to remove it after I install KDE 4.4?

Skripka

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From: 2X1280X1024

Registered: 2009-02-19

Posts: 555

Re: Install latest KDE 4.4 version? How?

You need Testing repos enabled for both Arch and KDEMod.

funkyou

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From: Berlin, DE

Registered: 2006-03-19

Posts: 848

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Re: Install latest KDE 4.4 version? How?

You need Testing repos enabled for both Arch and KDEMod.

Just to clarify: thats wrong We almost never build against testing, even KDEmod-testing is compiled against Arch core/extra.

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sHyLoCk

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From: /dev/null

Registered: 2009-06-19

Posts: 1,197

Re: Install latest KDE 4.4 version? How?

You can install it from kde-unstable, so yes I'm guessing you need to remove kdemod!
Enable testing,kde-unstable,community-testing and run a pacman -Syyu first.

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bazenga

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Registered: 2009-12-14

Posts: 15

Re: Install latest KDE 4.4 version? How?

kde-unstable doesn't exist anymore, kde 4.4 rc3 is in testing, so just enable testing and community-testing.
For kdemod see http://chakra-project.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?id=2171

Skripka

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From: 2X1280X1024

Registered: 2009-02-19

Posts: 555

Re: Install latest KDE 4.4 version? How?

You need Testing repos enabled for both Arch and KDEMod.

Just to clarify: thats wrong We almost never build against testing, even KDEmod-testing is compiled against Arch core/extra.

Qt4.6 ain't in Extra, or are y'all KDEMod folks back to supplying your own Qt?  I thought at one point y'all used Qt from Extra.

Thx for correcting my misunderstanding

Last edited by Skripka (2010-02-02 18:52:38)

Primoz

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From: Ljubljana-Slovena-EU

Registered: 2009-03-04

Posts: 688

Re: Install latest KDE 4.4 version? How?

You need Testing repos enabled for both Arch and KDEMod.

Just to clarify: thats wrong We almost never build against testing, even KDEmod-testing is compiled against Arch core/extra.

Qt4.6 ain't in Extra, or are y'all KDEMod folks back to supplying your own Qt?  I thought at one point y'all used Qt from Extra.

Thx for correcting my misunderstanding

Now there's a qtmod package... That replaces Qt.

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funkyou

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From: Berlin, DE

Registered: 2006-03-19

Posts: 848

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Re: Install latest KDE 4.4 version? How?

Just to clarify: thats wrong We almost never build against testing, even KDEmod-testing is compiled against Arch core/extra.

Qt4.6 ain't in Extra, or are y'all KDEMod folks back to supplying your own Qt?  I thought at one point y'all used Qt from Extra.

Thx for correcting my misunderstanding

Now there's a qtmod package... That replaces Qt.

Yes, its there since 4.3.0 already

People, sometimes i am asking myself how some of you survived the Arch installation. Reading documentation, news etc is still essential, even when using Chakra/KDEmod

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scio

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From: Buffalo, NY

Registered: 2008-08-05

Posts: 366

Re: Install latest KDE 4.4 version? How?

If you want KDE 4.4 and Qt 4.6, use KDEmod core/testing with Arch core/extra.  Do NOT mix KDEmod testing with Arch testing.

Edit: ^ what funkyou said

Last edited by scio (2010-02-02 21:16:57)

Skripka

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From: 2X1280X1024

Registered: 2009-02-19

Posts: 555

Re: Install latest KDE 4.4 version? How?

Yes, its there since 4.3.0 already

People, sometimes i am asking myself how some of you survived the Arch installation. Reading documentation, news etc is still essential, even when using Chakra/KDEmod

To be fair I last used KDEMod in the late 4.2 series and have been elsewhere since, and was running on memory and not enough coffee at the time

Last edited by Skripka (2010-02-02 21:20:25)

MW

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Registered: 2007-07-27

Posts: 127

Re: Install latest KDE 4.4 version? How?

From the arch-dev mailing list (which you SHOULD be subscribed to if you use testing):

The same Information about kde-unstable now apply to testing:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dev … :KDE#Users Note that the kde-
unstable repository will be removed soon.

If you update you have to use the following commands as pacman is not able to
resolve the dependencies otherwise:

% pacman -Sy --asdeps qt
% pacman -Su

So if you are not willing to have a few things maybe break, then do not enable testing!