Installing KDE 3.8.x (to be v4) alongside stable

[n9nu]

I was told several times that I could install the KDE RPMs from Cooker , version 3.8.x or so, along side 3.5.6, but for the life of me I cannot seem to enable some of them in the package manager...after I added all the right sources. It gives several conflicts as well. I was wondering if anyone out here has both KDE version installed along side and how they did it.

 

Tim

[Guest jmac]

Yes, I did install some KDE-3.8 applications using smart. These items install the /opt directory rather than /usr. To use them there is a simple directive (which I can't remember at the moment) which probably sets KDE_HOME to /opt. I never got the guts to try running it, I only downloaded it to solve an amarok problem. If you select any app from the group, the dependecies (kdebase, etc) are automatically downloaded.

[scarecrow]

It is possible to run KDE4 alpha in parallel with 3.5.X in Mandy (as well as several other distros), since they use different installation dirs, but you should definitely use a different user for KDE4, else you will screw your current KDE profile beyond repair. I had them running in parallel (different users) under Arch Linux, but I wiped KDE4- will come back when it will be slighly more usable, as currently it's a mess at the very best.

Downloaded an aplha, almost unusable KDE version to solve an Amarok issue? Man, you are a brave one! :D

By the way Amarok hasn't switched to QT4 yet, so you probably did all that for nothing, jmac.

Edited May 16, 2007 by scarecrow