8 Sep
2010
8 Sep
'10
11:47 p.m.
I have Debian Lenny installed on some separate
partitions in my office
system. During all of our conversations and work I had plain forgotten
about that install. I have KDE 3.5.9/10 or whatever the default Debian
system provides. The system is current to about April or May 2010.
Do I need to uninstall those KDE 3 packages before installing Trinity
nightlies? Or will apt-get/synaptic handle the updates?
You shouldn't need to
do anything fancy.
Do I need only add the Trinity PPA to the sources.list to find to install
the nightlies? (Is this the correct web page?:
https://launchpad.net/~kde3-maintainers/+archive/trinity-svn-nightly/+index…)
No, that is an old Ubuntu-Lucid-only archive. All new development takes
place on the internal QuickBuild system due to build time constraints on
the shared Launchpad system.
I have added installation instructions to the main Trinity web page at:
http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/
Just click on your distro and follow the instructions. ;-)
Does apt-get or Synaptic provide a way to reduce download bandwidth by
updating only the differences in packages (like rsync) rather than an
entire package?
Not sure, sorry. I remember some discussion about that many years
ago,
but I do not know if that feature ever made it in to Debian.
I realize these are not developer specific questions. I'm not a Debian
guru or main user, but I might be able to help with some testing by
installing Trinity in my Debian install.
Much appreciated; I already have a few Debian testers but more is always
better.
Tim