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#1 2008-08-01 21:29:04

atomclock
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How do I revert back to KDE 3.x???

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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#2 2008-08-01 21:43:44

whargoul
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Re: How do I revert back to KDE 3.x???

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

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#3 2008-08-01 21:43:55

skottish
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Re: How do I revert back to KDE 3.x???

Well, you could search the forums for the other four or five threads that have been discussing this, or you could just go here:

http://kdemod.ath.cx/bbs/viewtopic.php?id=892

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#4 2008-08-01 21:47:38

atomclock
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Re: How do I revert back to KDE 3.x???

skottish wrote:

Well, you could search the forums for the other four or five threads that have been discussing this, or you could just go here:

http://kdemod.ath.cx/bbs/viewtopic.php?id=892

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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#5 2008-08-01 21:51:32

skottish
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Re: How do I revert back to KDE 3.x???

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.

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#6 2008-08-01 22:10:10

atomclock
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Re: How do I revert back to KDE 3.x???

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

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#7 2008-08-01 22:12:24

skottish
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Re: How do I revert back to KDE 3.x???

Did you add the kdemod repo to your mirrors list?

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#8 2008-08-01 22:14:43

atomclock
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Re: How do I revert back to KDE 3.x???

skottish wrote:

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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#9 2008-08-01 22:16:31

skottish
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Re: How do I revert back to KDE 3.x???

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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#10 2008-08-02 07:54:24

karag
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Re: How do I revert back to KDE 3.x???

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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#11 2008-08-02 09:46:28

Xinix
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Re: How do I revert back to KDE 3.x???

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.... tongue

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