[arch-general] KDE4.3 Beta - Rocks, still a bit rough, but very usable as a primary desktop

[David C. Rankin]

On Wednesday 17 June 2009 08:29:29 Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 June 2009 15:00:32 David C. Rankin wrote:
> >  Evidently kde4 saw and conflict with the kde3 packages and didn't
> > install anything. The last line of the output was:
> >
> > Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
> >
> >         Talk about a bummer.... What does the brain-trust suggest?
>
> Make sure you don't have any third packages related to KDE installed (aka
> kdemod). If you don't have KDE installed from extra before there will be a
> problem with installing kde the first time from kde-unstable.
>
> If you install by group (pacman -S kde) pacman tries to install the kde
> group it finds in extra and the on in kde-unstable. And then you'll get a
> file conflict of course.
>
> Three options:
> * just install kdebase-workspace and everything else you need by hand
> * run pacman -S kde and make sure to answer "no" to all packages you will
> be asked for the second time (the first ones will be from kde-unstable and
> the other ones from extra)
> * Use the kde-meta group or kde-meta-* packages to install
>
> Note that this is just pacman's limitation and you are only affected when
> using testing/kde-unstable and don't just update but make a new install of
> KDE.
>
> See also: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KDE_Packages

Err -- Ah Ha!

	So Arch uses /opt/kde for both kde3 and kde4 instead of leaving kde3 as 
/opt/kde and installing kde4 in /usr/bin. That's got to be the difference and 
the reason I can't have both kde3 and kde4 live side-by-side?? Is that 
correct?


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