willie Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 When i wan't to install korn under spring i see kdepim4-korn-3.80.3 and kdepim-korn-3.5.6 Which one must i install, with 2006 you only got one for example kdepim-korn. Can anybody shine a light in the darknes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkerr82508 Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 kdepim4-korn is part of KDE4, an experimental version of KDE. When installing KDE packages in 2007.1 always install the ones with version 3.5.6. Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted July 16, 2007 Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 If I understand AdamW (Mandriva man) the 4 version is okay to use. In another thread he explained the subject and he said it should not be a problem. I have installed some such and certainly have had NO problems. Cheers. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willie Posted July 16, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 Wasn't a experimentel version of KDE4 came with 2008 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkerr82508 Posted July 16, 2007 Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 If I understand AdamW (Mandriva man) the 4 version is okay to use.In another thread he explained the subject and he said it should not be a problem. I have installed some such and certainly have had NO problems. Cheers. John. I think if you re-read Adam's comments, you'll see they relate to library packages. The version number 3.80.3 identifies the package mentioned here as a KDE4 package. It's probably best to make sure that the version is 3.5.6 before installing any KDE package in 2007.1. (Unless you actually want to try out KDE4). Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted July 16, 2007 Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 yep, jkerr is correct. In this case, kdepim-korn is the one you want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted July 16, 2007 Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 Since he said he was using Spring then he would have been using kde3.5.6, which my answer was directed at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willie Posted July 16, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 Thanks for the information, i had installed kdepim-korn. I was just wondering about de kdepim-korn4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted July 17, 2007 Report Share Posted July 17, 2007 as the others mentioned, it's the KDE 4 version, from our experimental KDE 4 build, which you don't want to use unless you're a KDE developer, really =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted July 18, 2007 Report Share Posted July 18, 2007 Clearly enough kdepim-korn4 is part of KDE 4 alpha 2 which is the current KDE 4 version ( beta1 is supposed to be out in one week or so), and you got it from an unofficial repo you have enabled (not even Cooker). In *some* distros (not all) you can have KDE 4 in parallel with KDE 3 (I do under Arch Linux), but you must be very careful- e.g. not using your normal KDE3 user account to log into KDE4 and vice versa. KDE 4 is not terribly functional yet- loads of nasty bugs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted July 18, 2007 Report Share Posted July 18, 2007 kdepim4-korn is part of KDE4, so you probably want the other one. Wait...did we already cover that? I wasn't sure... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willie Posted July 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2007 Clearly enough kdepim-korn4 is part of KDE 4 alpha 2 which is the current KDE 4 version ( beta1 is supposed to be out in one week or so), and you got it from an unofficial repo you have enabled (not even Cooker). Noop it where the sources from MCNL on my laptop, on the other comp Mandy chooses the sources. Both give kdepim-korn4 as a choise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted July 19, 2007 Report Share Posted July 19, 2007 If MCNL offers KDE4 apps in their main repo, then it's a very unwise choice... Surely enough a lot of people want to use the new korn, or the new kget (with metalinks and bittorrrent support), or the new multimedia framework, or Amarok 2, or... but it's not there yet, and should be used only by software developers, and noone else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted July 19, 2007 Report Share Posted July 19, 2007 (edited) The KDE4 alpha version is on the Mandriva 2007.1 official /contrib mirror. Not in main. A user who has contrib enabled is seeing all these alpha packages. Personally I find it confusing. But I would not want to live without packages from contrib :-) If we get a buggy KDE4 beta (not as default, but as a choice) for 2008 on a standard urpmi source like contrib, I really hope that the packagers make it clear in the title of the package _and_ in the description what it is. I don't understand what Willie means with MCNL, mandrivaclub.nl ? There are no KDE4 packages in the specific MCNL repos. Edited July 19, 2007 by chris:b Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willie Posted July 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2007 I don't understand what Willie means with MCNL, mandrivaclub.nl ? There are no KDE4 packages in the specific MCNL repos. What i meant with the sources of MCNL was the MCNL-urpmiweb, same as here Easy-urpmi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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