Solved a part of the problem, as has been noted the U10.01Trinity uses .kde3 and the old deb install uses .kde.  Solved the problem, I hope, by renaming .kde to .kde3.  Other problems so far have been resolved by symlinking .kde3 to kde.  With the exception of things not installed here that were in the old deb5 install I do have my desktop!<br>
<br>Also, if you installed kpat and it won&#39;t run either add /opt/kde3/games to your path or you can just ln -s /opt/kde3/games/kpat /opt/kde3/bin/kpat.<br><br>Got an oddie with trying to run kpackage when trying to install something which gives me a popup which says &quot;Login Problem:  Please login manually and I am already (in the popup) in a root shell.  Have not resolved this one yet.<br>
<br>Moving along smartly !  <br><br>Thanks everyone!<br><br>--<br>Ubuntu 10.10 - Trinity KDE 3.5.12 - EXT4 - 32-bit at sda2<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Jimmy Johnson <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:JimmyJhn@mailcan.com">JimmyJhn@mailcan.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">John A. Sullivan III wrote:<br>
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On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 01:27 -0700, Chris Reid wrote:<br>
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Hi Folks,<br>
<br>
Downloaded the U10.10 version and played with that - all went well so<br>
I installed it to the HD and all is apparently well with the install.<br>
<br>
Not sure what can be done about the one problem I have:  I copied<br>
(rsync) my old debian kde3.5 $HOME over to another free partition and<br>
logged out and mounted it as /home and then logged back in.  Comes up<br>
but did not pick up *anything* of my old kde3 data.  Yes, I do<br>
have /home/me/.kde.  Permaission are correct and everything looks good<br>
but neither kde3 related data (kontact, etc.) nor desktop config were<br>
picked up.   I did get the new user wizzard as well.  I&#39;m much<br>
perplexed?!?!?<br>
<br>
It would seem that the Trinity install should just pick up everything<br>
from my old deb kde3 system.  Did I miss something?!?<br>
<br>
Any thoughts appreciated!<br>
    <br>
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To enable side by side installation, Trinity does not use ~/.kde.  User<br>
configuration is in ~/.trinity and the entire Trinity installation is<br>
in /opt/trinity.<br>
<br>
When we migrate, we typically copy .kde to .trinity,<br>
rename /usr/bin/startkde and then create a symbolic link<br>
named /usr/bin/startkde to /opt/trinity/bin/startkde - John<br>
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The Ubuntu 10.10 version trinity does use .kde3 in the /home/user folder and it&#39;s /opt/kde3/bin<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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-- <br>
Jimmy Johnson<br>
<br>
Ubuntu 10.10 - Trinity KDE 3.5.12 - EXT4 - 64-bit at sda11<br>
Registered Linux User #380263<br>
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