Hello / KDE 4 / Asking questions.

[Peter Lewis]

On Monday 14 May 2007 at 14:41:05 Derek Broughton wrote:
> Peter Lewis wrote:
> > I've got a quick question though. Keen to take a look, I am following the
> > instructions here:
> >
> > http://kubuntu.org/announcements/kde4-alpha1.php
> >
> > Attempting to install kde4base-dev, apt wants to remove kubuntu-desktop.
> >
> > Is this correct? The versions of kde4 in the main ubuntu repositories
> > don't require this.
>
> Where exactly are you getting kde4base-dev from ?  It won't cause you any
> (immediate) problems if kubuntu-desktop gets removed, but the fact that it
> is happening implies that you're trying a repository that hasn't been
> blessed by ubuntu. 

I'm using the repositary that is listed on the page above. Following the 
instructions it tells me to add the following line to my sources.list:

deb http://kubuntu.org/packages/kde4-3.90.1/ feisty main

And it wanted to remove a whole bunch of stuff. Actually, all the following:

apport-qt hwdb-client-kde kubuntu-desktop language-selector-qt libqt4-core 
libqt4-dev libqt4-gui libqt4-qt3support libqt4-sql python-qt4 qt4-designer 
qt4-dev-tools qt4-qtconfig software-properties-kde speedcrunch

> kubuntu-desktop is just a metapackage that depends on 
> all the standard stuff that KUbuntu installs.  The developers are clear
> that for a hassle-free upgrade experience to a new release, you _must_ have
> the desktop package installed.

I figured as much, but the announcement says clearly that this should be 
installable alongside KDE3.

Thanks,

Pete.