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Hello all. I'm sorry to waste forum space b/c this is probably elementary. I am having problems understanding some aspects of using the different repositories. Number one confusion is how to download KDE pkgs that I like when I am using the Gnome desktop. For instance, I am very partial to smb4k. I can install this via pacman, no problem, although I have to install the kdebase and alot of kde libs to support it. But I also like shisen-sho, a kde game and Akregator, the news feed reader. I created havoc with my Arch install recently because I assumed I had to use the kdemod repository for Akregator. It didn't come up in core/extra/community as available. So I installed that and shisen-sho and THEN had pacman install smb4k. Apparently, smb4k pulled standard kde components from core/extra/community because suddenly, ALL of these pkgs were broken. Also, one or a couple of these pkgs pulled in both qt3 and qt4 and I had every kde pkg possible listed in my gnome menu under 'other'. :-(
Is there an easy way to do this? Or are these applications simply not possible to configure together if not running a native KDE desktop? And is this process ALWAYS going to pull in all this kde garbage that I don't want and drop it into my pretty gnome menu?
Many thanks for any assistance.
Carrie
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Hi, I am no expert on the topic (and also am a full time KDE user, so the more KDE pkgs = me more happy).
Akregator is a part of kdepim and shisen sho is part of kdegames...
After you fix ur mess, you can just: 'pacman -S kdepim kdegames' and ur set up for life
you dont need any kdemod repos.. and stuffs
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Hi daf. I guess I was trying to avoid having to install the entire pim and games pkgs. I will never use any of the other pkgs and except those two so it just seems like such a waste of space and plus, the bloated menu thing.
Tx for your reply, tho. It may be that I have no choice. :-(
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5x5, in that case you might want to look at kdemod..
http://www.kdemod.ath.cx/
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