Running KDE 3 on Intripid - HOWTO

[Bruce Marshall]

On Friday 14 November 2008, Michael Hirsch wrote:
> If you're like me, you like KDE 3.5.x but would like to upgrade to
> Intrepid.  Unfortunately, the Kubuntu team has made that difficult.
> Well, I'm here to say that it is not impossible, nor even that hard!
>
> This link has the instructions:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=963695

Well, this is one of many ways to (supposedly) get KDE3 onto Intrepid.

I had a fresh Intrepid installation and tried this method and it totally hosed 
it.  No great loss because it was a test machine anyway and I wasn't using 
it.

But I don't really think I want to go and install Hardy and then upgrade to 
Intrepid and then try to regress to KDE3.

I'll just wait for KDE4 to become usable or go to another distro.

I too think that the choice of KDE4 was a bad one.  No, don't do any 
development on KDE 3 for kubuntu.  That would waste resources.  But have a 
little sympathy for your users.....

They didn't.