On Wednesday 12 November 2003 07:42 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:19:52AM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > You're right, there's a partial transition from kde2 to kde3 in > > sarge. Neither are usable if you install a new system now. > > (unless you go to unstable) > > It's definitely a problem blocking the release at the moment, of > course.
I came up with the following solution from posts to this list (including Colin's), and from some debian documentation (http://wiki.debian.net/?DebianKDE). First, I got a snapshot of the libsensors package. Then I set up a local directory to hold downloaded deb packages such as this one, and put a file: entry below my cdrom: and http: entries in my sources.list, so apt tools find it. ------------------------------------------------------------ (1) Downloaded libsensors-1debian1_2.7.0-6_i386.deb from ... http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2003/06/24/debian/pool/main/l/lm-sensors/libsensors-1debian1_2.7.0-6_i386.deb (2) As root: mkdir -p /var/cache/apt/storage/debs mv libsensors-1debian1_2.7.0-6_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/storage/debs cd /var/cache/apt/storage/debs dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null > Packages gzip Packages (3) Add the following line to the bottom of /etc/apt/sources.list deb file:/var/cache/apt/storage/debs ./ (4) Now when you use aptitude (or whatever), KDE3 should install. ------------------------------------------------------------ When libsensors-1debian1 appears in http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing, aptitude will find it there. If I ever want to download or create individual deb's, I can put them in /var/cache/apt/storage/debs, and use the dpkg-scanpackages and gzip commands above to refresh my local deb package database. David Crane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
