Which ppa for kde?

Leslie Anne Chatterton lahc2007 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 13 15:52:26 UTC 2011


There's nothing wrong with using your customers as unpaid beta testers...
MS has been doing it for years!

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On Dec 13, 2011 8:03 AM, "Nigel Ridley" <nigel at prayingforisrael.net> wrote:

> On 12/13/2011 02:44 PM, Mark Greenwood wrote:
>
>> The updates PPA currently has KDE 4.7.3. It's a staging PPA for packages
>> that are intended to go into the main updates repo at some point. If you
>> want to get the next KDE release right away this is the one to enable, but
>> bear in mind you're basically beta-testing if you install from there. If
>> you wait until the packages make it into main updates then there's a chance
>> that a few bugs will have been fixed.
>>
>> The backports PPA is generally used for KDE point releases backported
>> from the next Kubuntu release, so it's probably empty at the moment.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
> It seems as if I'm already a beta tester :-( so it shouldn't be a problem
> adding the updates PPA and continuing to be a beta tester.....
>
> Nigel
>
>  On 13 Dec 2011, at 11:34, Nigel Ridley wrote:
>>
>>  Kubuntu 11.0
>>> I'm having a few issues with KDE 4.7.2 and was thinking about adding the
>>> ppa for KDE 4.7.3
>>> I don't want to mess up my system but would like the advantages of a
>>> more reliable KDE.
>>>
>>> Which ppa is recommended:
>>> Kubuntu Backports [https://launchpad.net/~**
>>> kubuntu-ppa/+archive/backports<https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/backports>
>>> **]
>>> or
>>> Kubuntu Updates [https://launchpad.net/~**kubuntu-ppa/+archive/ppa<https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/ppa>
>>> ]?
>>>
>>> TIA,
>>>
>>> Nigel
>>>
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