LMDE BREAKAGES - (Tracking SID!) -{CLOSED}

[elliotsagan]

There's a thread you can use to get KDE SC 4.7.2 over at viewtopic.php?f=190&t=86767. It's what I used to get my KDE upgraded.

Hi BostonPeng!!
Thank you very much for your fast reply. Unfortunately, I am on x86 LMDE.... Any ideas?

[elliotsagan]

There's a thread you can use to get KDE SC 4.7.2 over at viewtopic.php?f=190&t=86767. It's what I used to get my KDE upgraded.

Hi BostonPeng!!
Thank you very much for your fast reply. Unfortunately, I am on x86 LMDE.... Any ideas?

I've just found it. From a zero-zero post.
Cheers

[andrew5859]

Hi andrew5859!
Could you kindly orient me on how to install KDE 4.7?. I am using LMDE also with Gnome and XFCE.
Is there a repository that I can add to synaptic to do that? Or may be an apt-get install especial way...
TIA
Regards

Hello elliot,

First you'll want to add this repository to your sources list: deb http://qt-kde.debian.net/debian experimental-snapshots main ....then refresh your list, next, go into terminal and do: sudo apt-get install pkg-kde-archive-keyring then still in terminal do a sudo apt-get update, after which you would then do: sudo apt-get install kde-full then go from there....hope this helps....cheers & Merry Christmas....BTW, if you already have this repo in your sources list and have kde, the you'll need to go with sid unstable in order to get 4.7.2: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main non-free as above, refresh your list and do an update, then reboot.


Andrew

[BostonPeng]

There's a thread you can use to get KDE SC 4.7.2 over at viewtopic.php?f=190&t=86767. It's what I used to get my KDE upgraded.

Hi BostonPeng!!
Thank you very much for your fast reply. Unfortunately, I am on x86 LMDE.... Any ideas?

I've just found it. From a zero-zero post.
Cheers

Good to hear. I completely forgot I'm not on x86 any more, which is funny since Amazon's MP3 downloader is broken since I changed architectures.

[GregE]

This morning's update, Dec 30 in the eastern hemisphere, has killed virtualbox - both non-free and ose versions. I do not mind as I only used it to play with Mate.

If Virtualbox is important to your then I suggest you hold off on updates for a while.

[elliotsagan]

Hi andrew5859!
Could you kindly orient me on how to install KDE 4.7?. I am using LMDE also with Gnome and XFCE.
Is there a repository that I can add to synaptic to do that? Or may be an apt-get install especial way...
TIA
Regards

Hello elliot,

First you'll want to add this repository to your sources list: deb http://qt-kde.debian.net/debian experimental-snapshots main ....then refresh your list, next, go into terminal and do: sudo apt-get install pkg-kde-archive-keyring then still in terminal do a sudo apt-get update, after which you would then do: sudo apt-get install kde-full then go from there....hope this helps....cheers & Merry Christmas....BTW, if you already have this repo in your sources list and have kde, the you'll need to go with sid unstable in order to get 4.7.2: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main non-free as above, refresh your list and do an update, then reboot.


Andrew

Hello andrew,
Thank you very much for your detailed replay. Before reading your reply I was "able" to messed up with my repository information. It was a total mess indeed. But I did manage at last.
Cheers and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

[craigevil]

KDE 4.7.4 is in experimental and works just fine.

The easiest way to install/upgrade it for me any way was too use Synaptic and mark all of the 4.7.4 package to be upgraded.

[GeneC]

Hmm!

Maybe Debian should change the name from SID (Unstable) to SID (very stable)
Nothing breaks anymore. I haven't had any sort of a problem with either LMDE-SID-Gnome, or LMDE-SID-XFCE for the longest time.

Now I know that just because I said that something will break tomorrow.

[BostonPeng]

The same seems to apply to SID KDE. And of course Gmail's new theme broke this am.

[wayne128]

Hmm!

Maybe Debian should change the name from SID (Unstable) to SID (very stable)
Nothing breaks anymore. I haven't had any sort of a problem with either LMDE-SID-Gnome, or LMDE-SID-XFCE for the longest time.

Now I know that just because I said that something will break tomorrow.

hmm, please do not spoil my young Debian Sids (many of them!)!
I want to see them at least crossing a one-year mark...
I better be careful on d-u , at least skip d-u till someone else says it is all clear to go

[andrew5859]

Hello Wayne,

I've got MGSE deb files installed....I've discovered however, that the ability to open any file in any other folder (other than those in home) as Administrator is no longer available. Is there a way to get this back...the reason I ask is I need this function to do tweaks on my system where neccessary....any ideas...thank you in advance...cheers


Andrew

[wayne128]

Andrew,
sorry cannot help you with this because I do not have sid with MGSE.
I run Mate on Debian Sid and lmde-less mintmenu+Mate.

check this out if you are on Mate
viewtopic.php?f=206&t=86481&p=523544#p523057

[GregE]

Hello Wayne,
I've got MGSE deb files installed....I've discovered however, that the ability to open any file in any other folder (other than those in home) as Administrator is no longer available. Is there a way to get this back...the reason I ask is I need this function to do tweaks on my system where neccessary....any ideas...thank you in advance...cheers
Andrew

http://askubuntu.com/questions/78116/wh ... tilus-gone

[andrew5859]

Andrew,
sorry cannot help you with this because I do not have sid with MGSE.
I run Mate on Debian Sid and lmde-less mintmenu+Mate.

check this out if you are on Mate
viewtopic.php?f=206&t=86481&p=523544#p523057

Hello Wayne,

Did you happen to take out all of nautilus and gnome when you installed MATE

[wayne128]

Andrew,

No, I did not remove nautilus.
As mentioned elsewhere, my LMDE-Sid-gnome3+Mate is without mintmenu, in other words, I took out mint repos and left with only Debian Sid repos.. has been stable since I started Mate installation.

See what versions installed on caja and nautilus:

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lmde64play wayne # apt-cache policy caja nautilus
nautilus:
  Installed: 3.2.1-2+b1
  Candidate: 3.2.1-2+b1
  Version table:
 *** 3.2.1-2+b1 0
        500 http://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
caja:
  Installed: 1.1.1-1
  Candidate: 1.1.1-1
  Version table:
 *** 1.1.1-1 0
        500 http://tridex.net/repo/debian/ wheezy/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[andrew5859]

Hey Wayne,

Got it all in and it looks great.....I noticed that by default, the update icon doesn't show up on the task/notification area....is there something broken here


Andrew

[wayne128]

I noticed that by default, the update icon doesn't show up on the task/notification area....is there something broken here

Andrew, mine does not have mint update menu also.
Actually I do not use update manager, being too used to apt-get ..

[GregE]

Virtualbox is back working again.

[xircon]

Something is breaking my shell, don't know what yet, going to roll-back and play.

:Edit: I think it is libdrm updates causing me to boot into fall-back.

:Edit2: Oh I don't know, I am getting occasionally thrown into fall-back mode, nothing in xsession-errors, is this the correct log to look in?

[Regulus74]

In today update something is breaking gtk2 and gtk3 interface: applications appear as Win98 and icon theme is gnome.
LMDE 64 sid