7 Dec
2011
7 Dec
'11
10:17 p.m.
Apt and Dpkg aren't to blame: they are made to
upgrade
packages.
Downgrading always need some brain cells.
The main problem is that I use an unsupported system :
debian testing
with debian-multimedia packages.
Trinity's Debian packages are for Debian stable ; they
aren't fully
and easily installable on Debian testing.
And Trinity's Debian packages create conflicts with
debian-multimedia/stable, another unofficial repository
they can't deal
with.
Since I removed all of KDE3 and KDE4 programs, I removed
the origins of
the problems that are discussed here ;-)
I believe the environment variables are being changed during Tim's Great Big Git
Migration.
Last year when I rebuilt KDE3 for Slackware 13.1, I patched KDE3 to change the environment
variables to KDE3HOME, KDE3DIR, etc. I patched the packages for a KDE3HOME of $HOME/.kde3
and not .kde.
All of that avoids conflicts with KDE4.
With those changes I probably am in a small club of people who can install KDE3 and TDE
concurrently and not worry about environment variables clashing. I still need to write
some modified xinit or bashrc scripts.
Darrell
Glad you got things working. I had Amarok TDE
running
for more than an hour yesterday.
I'm really happy to run it again.
But... I did some simple tests:
* /usr/bin/kedit (from KDE3 debian/lenny) is using
~/.trinity
* /usr/games/amor (from KDE4 debian/squeeze) stores its
files in the
same folder. And when I start amor-trinity, it says
there is a problem
with nekokurorc... And I have to kill it, edit
~/.trinity/share/config/amorrc and restart it.
If I could have amarok and amarok-trinity at the same time,
amarok would
use ~/.trinity.
And if I wanted to try amarok 2.3.1 (from KDE4), it will
use the same
folder, like other KDE4 programs and it will probably break
the
configuration files of amarok-trinity.
Maybe KDEHOME can be changed into TDEHOME for trinity's
programs, so
that /usr/bin/<KDE3-OR-KDE4-PROGRAM> uses its own
folder in ~/kde or
~/kde4. Has it already been discussed?