*- On 24 Jul, Carl Fink wrote about "No KDE/GNOME for stable?" > Pardon me if this has been hashed and rehashed: I haven't seen it on > the Usenet linux.debian.user, but I know not every message gets > gatewayed. I did a search on the archive and found nothing. >
Add the following to your apt sources.list deb http://kde.tdyc.com slink kde deb ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/gnome-1.0/debian slink main > It seems to me that there's no way to install either KDE or GNOME > using the current stable release. Apparently once a release is > "frozen" all new versions of .deb archives are created for unstable, > which in this case means using glibc 2.1 . . . which means that you > can't actually use them on a stable machine, because there's no > approved way of upgrading to glibc 2.1 on stable that I can locate. > > . . . why? What's the purpose of making everything on machines > running stable un-upgradable until some obscure Perl bug is worked > out? I just don't follow. > > Is there a way to try KDE/GNOME on stable that I'm missing? I did > some fairly extensive searches via www.debian.org's package search > engine. I should specify that I want a reasonably new release of > either, not the alpha GNOME in stable. > >From http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/ "Unofficial Updates Released Debian versions are generally not updated, except in the case of critical errors or security issues. However, for user convenience, there are certain updated packages which are made available." Several reasons that I can think of why this is true. If the developers kept updating stable then they would be introducing new bugs and would never get a chance to prepare unstable for release. At some point they have to stop working on one release and move on to the next. The sites above are done by gracious individuals who have built versions of packages for slink. With regards to KDE and Qt v1, they were removed from all official Debian mirrors and Redhat mirrors, See http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19981008 for all the reasons. -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------
