After much trying, trying forbidden techniques and after spending all the Chakra that was left to me kyuubi, I have achieved my goal and I already have KDE 4.10 on debian wheezy. Do you want to have it? I tell them how.
Teaching the forbidden techniques.
This feat I achieved using:
- The old ZevenOS repositories.
- The new ZevenOS repositories.
- I reprimanded.
- A couple of eggs, if we consider that I installed Debian 64Bit 8 hours before and could have broken everything in two by three having to install again. 😀
Why the old repositories of ZevenOS? Simple, because initially this distribution created a repository for the packages of KDE, but apparently all these packages were included in their main repository.
On another PC I have installed ZevenOS, and this is important because here comes the magic:
After installing and updating ZevenOS, what I did was take the packages that are stored in the apt cache (/ var / cache / apt /), and the packages that were in the old ZevenOS repositories and merge them into a single folder.
Already with all .deb inside a folder, I just had to make use de Reproach to create a custom repository, and then update and upgrade.
Known issues
There is only one package that gives me an error: kde-l10n-es, because when trying to update it, it tells me:
Reading changelist ... Done ... 100% (Reading database ... 149078 files or directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace kde-l10n-en 4: 4.8.4-2 (using ... /kde-l10n-es_4.9.0-3_all.deb) ... Unpacking the replacement for kde-l10n-es ... dpkg: error processing / home / elav / Linux / Repositories / myzevenos / pool / main / k / kde-l10n / kde-l10n-es_4.9.0-3_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/es/knode/knode-identity.png ', which is also in knode package 4: 4.4.11.1 + l10n-3 + b1 dpkg-deb: error: copied thread was terminated by signal (Broken pipe) Errors encountered while processing: / home / elav / Linux / Repositories / myzevenos / pool /main/k/kde-l10n/kde-l10n-es_4.9.0-3_all.deb E: Sub-process / usr / bin / dpkg returned an error code (1) A package could not be installed. Tried to recover:
Luckily this has not produced any problem with the language of my desktop.
The other problem was giving me the package kwin-style-decorator, which is not compatible with this version of KDE, so I had to uninstall it. Outside of that, everything works fine. I leave you as it looks:
I wanted to do a more detailed tutorial, but with the FLISOL topic tomorrow I have little time. If you are interested in another occasion, I will do it.
A question nothing to do, what is the font you use? (type, size and antialias setting) please, regards!
I use Aller at 10px .. 😀
How brave Elav. From this article I assume then that KDE 4.10 is not even in the Unstable repository ...
In fact, KDE 4.10.2 is already in Experimental 😀
I was going to ask that myself. Can't install with experimental?
Installed KDE 4.10.2 from Experimental on three machines (1 32-bit, 2 64-bit), and it works fine on all, without problems: sometimes you have to insist a bit with the dependencies, but it is not too complicated.
The transition to KMail2, equally smooth.
In fact, if I have to choose between pulling Experimental or the ZevenOS repositories, having already tried both, I definitely prefer pulling Experimental: KDE 4.10.2 is quite stable, and I remain on pure Debian.
What I have noticed is that it seems to consume a little more memory than the 4.8.4 that is in Wheezy, but the 64-bit computers are left over with 3 and 4 Gb of RAM, and the 32 has Nepomuk disabled and the effects graphics. Not Akonadi, because I use the KOrganizer as an agenda,
In the most powerful machines I am beginning to explore the possibilities of Activities and Nepomuk, which with KDE 4.10 is starting to pay off.
PS: To the blog authors, congratulations on your continuity
I was just curious, the truth is I have never used KDE 4 for more than two days, I used version 3.5.x.
Now only XFCE, since gnome 3.x I don't like it very much.
I never dared to install anything from Unstable, much less Experimental. That stays for people with fangs! 🙂
I congratulate you for taking on challenges and having fun in the process, that's the spirit.
Separate comment: I see that you are using Aller, they are the best fonts, I have used them for a long time and it is VERY difficult for me to replace them.
Greetings.
It's the best of GNU / Linux: the challenge. About Aller, well yes, I love them, but I'm using an older version than the one currently available for download. The new one looks ugly .. 😀
What few people know is that Ubuntu Font came from Aller 😀
Better I would have grabbed KDE 4.10 from the Launchpad PPA with the security update repo for Ubuntu (it's also risky, but if it's experimental I don't see the need to resort to another repo if I use Debian Testing).
I liked KDE because of its organization when configuring it (I tested it on Debian Stable in virtual machine and it is fantastic).
Rolling release rocks
Yup yup .. rocks !!
Only sometimes, sometimes it fucks up systems, like the last gnome update on arch xddd .., I was saved
How weird with KDE I've never had problems hehehe the only difference I see is that I can't pick up the menu bar because the option doesn't appear hehehe
I'm already getting disenchanted with GNOME 3 (the latest versions because 3.4 has at least the possibility of fallback) and I plan to switch blindfolded to XFCE or KDE (they are much tidier in that regard).
kde is excellent from my point of view and easy to configure appearances and others, so it is easy to put it to your liking. however if you want to continue in the line of GTK xfce is good to dry hahaha
When I tried the KDE that came with Debian Stable, I couldn't believe how cool it was and I can say that even a Windows user would quickly get used to that interface. Regarding XFCE, I would say that it is better than GNOME in terms of its order and its performance that it can achieve (I admit that GNOME 3 is good, but with the default shell it has, I highly doubt that it will get used to so many things ).
KDE is just great, it's even better than Aero and Windows Metro by far.
There are quite a few 4.10 packages in experimental. Everyone to do what they want, because it can be fun to try. I'll wait, because debian stable comes out next week, packages will be passed at full speed to testing, and I hope that in 2 or 3 weeks it will be 4.10.
I have noticed lately that I am not suffering from versionitis. Am I getting older? XD
If you're right ... I've even thought about staying at Wheezy for its stability ... But what's up ... Versionitis calls me.
I see a certain contradiction between having versionitis and using Debian; I don't know, it seems to me that there are other distributions if you want to be up to date and not mess up so much in the OS.
+1
Hey, in Debian you live with versionitis, a test with sid repos and experimental are cool.
yes yes, d hunter, it's cool to mix repositories that can destroy your hamster xd
A hamster "bleeding edge" laughs at danger. 😉 You can also check the weather first. http://edos.debian.net/weather/
Hi Elav,
Don't you think that to do what you do it is better to use a distro like Kubuntu or, failing that, download the ubuntu netinstall iso and do a Debian KDE installation?
I'm telling you only because of the versiontitis you are talking about and because you know how to build your own environment :).
If you are interested, I leave you the netinstall cd of version 13.04:
32 bits
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/raring/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/mini.iso
64 bits
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/raring/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/mini.iso
I was using Testing when I first tried Debian tired of wandering from distro to distro. At the same time, out of curiosity, I got to try the stable branch ... and I stayed there until today. Now what can I do if I have what I need? Well nothing, stay in stable Debian, since I am not versioned.
Idem (versionitis gave you cancer).
After Wheezy comes out in 15 days or so KDE 4.10 would be in testing, from what I could read, it seems that the maintenance team has grown a bit.
You went from カ デ エ 四 九 尾 (KDE 4 9-tails) to カ デ エ 四 十 尾 (?) XD!
Hi elav adding the Zevenos repositories to sources.list and forcing a KDE update is not feasible. Good luck with the (FLISOL) conference tomorrow, don't you know if it will be recorded?
Regards!!!
Very good elav, I like the tutorial, the truth is that I don't see that much of a problem, I even find it fun, everyone is aware of whether they want to mix branches or use other challenges, I am not afraid of any of the above; the best thing is that in debian it is still solid, I already have several months in Sid and it is PURE myth that stability is lost.
Above!!! gnu / Linux and naruto 😀
Hi Elav,
Don't you think that to do what you do it is better to use a distro like Kubuntu or, failing that, download the ubuntu netinstall iso and do a Debian KDE installation?
I'm telling you only because of the versiontitis you are talking about and because you know how to build your own environment 🙂.
If you are interested, I leave you the netinstall cd of version 13.04:
32 bits
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/raring/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/mini.iso
64 bits
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/raring/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/mini.iso
Some time ago I read a comment from you "elav" about you updated the kernel and now that you update the version of kde mixing repos from another distro, it seems that you no longer have a debian installed but a hybrid distro….
I don't understand why you use debian and not a more up-to-date rolling or cyclic. Ok, you may like debian but from what I read about you it seems that it is not the most appropriate for you, you should rethink changing distro.
Greetings.
It looks very cool (I clarify the desktop):]
Let's see guys, answering in a general way .. Why not use another Rolling distribution? Well, because what is best achieved in Cuba is Debian. My internet connection doesn't allow me to constantly download the packages that I normally use .. besides, I like Debian .. I adore it 😀
Debian Installer 7.0 Release Candidate 2 release is out
It looks very good, I am going to wait for normal development in debian, while in another partition I am testing other environments, right now testing debian + lxde, it is the first time that lxde lasts more than 1 week, ha.
After installing kde 4.10 How to revert all the changes since I log in and it sends me back to the login I cannot enter the graphical environment. I await your help
Hi, have you tried changing the desktop environment in kdm? If it doesn't work, go into console mode and rename the hidden kde configuration folder in case that's the problem.
What I don't quite understand is why I should have a local repository when the repository already exists ???
I get it, thanks for the bad connection and the limitations, very justified, ok