17 Oct
2010
17 Oct
'10
10:13 p.m.
Hi Folks,
Found TrinityKDE and was VERY happy! Short of a many page diatribe :-), I
loath kde4 :).
I downloaded and burned the LiveCD and fired it up (happy dance) and just to
see what would happen I elected to add kpat (my great time waster :) and
much to my disgust I ended up with a very large chunk of kde4 and the kde4
version of kpat(UGH).
I do not want *anything* to do with kde4. I've shared the link with a
number of people who are VERY happy to hear about this project!
How do I set this up so I end up with kde3.5 goodies and none of the kde4
festering sewage?
Thanks VERY much in advance!
17 Oct
17 Oct
10:32 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] Questions on getting kde4(UGH) stuff, what did I do wrong?
On Sunday 17 October 2010 14:13:14 Chris Reid wrote:
Hi Folks,
Found TrinityKDE and was VERY happy! Short of a many page diatribe :-), I
loath kde4 :).
I downloaded and burned the LiveCD and fired it up (happy dance) and just
to see what would happen I elected to add kpat (my great time waster :) and
much to my disgust I ended up with a very large chunk of kde4 and the kde4
version of kpat(UGH).
I do not want *anything* to do with kde4. I've shared the link with a
number of people who are VERY happy to hear about this project!
How do I set this up so I end up with kde3.5 goodies and none of the kde4
festering sewage?
Thanks VERY much in advance!
On my Debian system all the KDE 3.5.12 stuff ends with a '-trinity' ie,
kpat-trinity, Trinity is designed to run along side of KDE4 so you need to
know what that means and install the app you want.
--
Peace,
Greg
10:41 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] Questions on getting kde4(UGH) stuff, what did I do wrong?
Chris Reid wrote:
Hi Folks,
Found TrinityKDE and was VERY happy! Short of a many page diatribe
:-), I loath kde4 :).
I downloaded and burned the LiveCD and fired it up (happy dance) and
just to see what would happen I elected to add kpat (my great time
waster :) and much to my disgust I ended up with a very large chunk of
kde4 and the kde4 version of kpat(UGH).
I do not want *anything* to do with kde4. I've shared the link with a
number of people who are VERY happy to hear about this project!
How do I set this up so I end up with kde3.5 goodies and none of the
kde4 festering sewage?
Thanks VERY much in advance!
You want to install "kpat-kde3", NOT kpat. If the package name don't
include "-kde3" then the package is for kde4.
--
Jimmy Johnson
Ubuntu Lucid and Trinity KDE 3.5.11 - EXT4 at sda10
Registered Linux User #380263
18 Oct
18 Oct
4:20 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] Questions on getting kde4(UGH) stuff, what did I do wrong?
Thanks for the reply folks!
This will make not only me but several other folks VERY happy!
Need to check, but IIRC I entered just kpat in the search and all I got was
the 4 version, none of the trinity stuff showed up?!? Will verify that and
that the LiveCD sources does indeed have the trinity mirrors.
You folks doing this have no idea how happy we are to find this!
Will fire it up again and verify!
Thanks, THANKS!
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Jimmy Johnson <JimmyJhn(a)mailcan.com> wrote:
Chris Reid wrote:
Hi Folks,
Found TrinityKDE and was VERY happy! Short of a many page diatribe :-), I
loath kde4 :).
I downloaded and burned the LiveCD and fired it up (happy dance) and just
to see what would happen I elected to add kpat (my great time waster :) and
much to my disgust I ended up with a very large chunk of kde4 and the kde4
version of kpat(UGH).
I do not want *anything* to do with kde4. I've shared the link with a
number of people who are VERY happy to hear about this project!
How do I set this up so I end up with kde3.5 goodies and none of the kde4
festering sewage?
Thanks VERY much in advance!
You want to install "kpat-kde3", NOT kpat. If the package name don't
include "-kde3" then the package is for kde4.
--
Jimmy Johnson
Ubuntu Lucid and Trinity KDE 3.5.11 - EXT4 at sda10
Registered Linux User #380263
20 Oct
20 Oct
8:27 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] Questions on getting kde4(UGH) stuff, what did I do wrong?
Hi Folks,
Downloaded the U10.10 version and played with that - all went well so I
installed it to the HD and all is apparently well with the install.
Not sure what can be done about the one problem I have: I copied (rsync) my
old debian kde3.5 $HOME over to another free partition and logged out and
mounted it as /home and then logged back in. Comes up but did not pick up
*anything* of my old kde3 data. Yes, I do have /home/me/.kde. Permaission
are correct and everything looks good but neither kde3 related data
(kontact, etc.) nor desktop config were picked up. I did get the new user
wizzard as well. I'm much perplexed?!?!?
It would seem that the Trinity install should just pick up everything from
my old deb kde3 system. Did I miss something?!?
Any thoughts appreciated!
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Chris Reid <vmlist2(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for the reply folks!
This will make not only me but several other folks VERY happy!
Need to check, but IIRC I entered just kpat in the search and all I got was
the 4 version, none of the trinity stuff showed up?!? Will verify that and
that the LiveCD sources does indeed have the trinity mirrors.
You folks doing this have no idea how happy we are to find this!
Will fire it up again and verify!
Thanks, THANKS!
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Jimmy Johnson <JimmyJhn(a)mailcan.com>wrote;wrote:
Chris Reid wrote:
Hi Folks,
Found TrinityKDE and was VERY happy! Short of a many page diatribe :-),
I loath kde4 :).
I downloaded and burned the LiveCD and fired it up (happy dance) and just
to see what would happen I elected to add kpat (my great time waster :) and
much to my disgust I ended up with a very large chunk of kde4 and the kde4
version of kpat(UGH).
I do not want *anything* to do with kde4. I've shared the link with a
number of people who are VERY happy to hear about this project!
How do I set this up so I end up with kde3.5 goodies and none of the kde4
festering sewage?
Thanks VERY much in advance!
You want to install "kpat-kde3", NOT kpat. If the package name don't
include "-kde3" then the package is for kde4.
--
Jimmy Johnson
Ubuntu Lucid and Trinity KDE 3.5.11 - EXT4 at sda10
Registered Linux User #380263
9:29 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] Questions on getting kde4(UGH) stuff, what did I do wrong?
Chris Reid wrote:
Hi Folks,
Downloaded the U10.10 version and played with that - all went well so
I installed it to the HD and all is apparently well with the install.
Not sure what can be done about the one problem I have: I copied
(rsync) my old debian kde3.5 $HOME over to another free partition and
logged out and mounted it as /home and then logged back in. Comes up
but did not pick up *anything* of my old kde3 data. Yes, I do have
/home/me/.kde. Permaission are correct and everything looks good but
neither kde3 related data (kontact, etc.) nor desktop config were
picked up. I did get the new user wizzard as well. I'm much
perplexed?!?!?
It would seem that the Trinity install should just pick up everything
from my old deb kde3 system. Did I miss something?!?
Any thoughts appreciated!
At least you have a reason for it happening, I lost all my desktop
settings for no apparent reason, all I did was reboot, since then
everything seems to be OK.
If you still have those settings backed up try and copy them over again
and see if they will stick this time, just make sure you do it as user,
not superuser.
--
Jimmy Johnson
Ubuntu 10.10 - Trinity KDE 3.5.12 - EXT4 - 64-bit at sda11
Registered Linux User #380263
10:35 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] Questions on getting kde4(UGH) stuff, what did I do wrong?
On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 01:27 -0700, Chris Reid wrote:
Hi Folks,
Downloaded the U10.10 version and played with that - all went well so
I installed it to the HD and all is apparently well with the install.
Not sure what can be done about the one problem I have: I copied
(rsync) my old debian kde3.5 $HOME over to another free partition and
logged out and mounted it as /home and then logged back in. Comes up
but did not pick up *anything* of my old kde3 data. Yes, I do
have /home/me/.kde. Permaission are correct and everything looks good
but neither kde3 related data (kontact, etc.) nor desktop config were
picked up. I did get the new user wizzard as well. I'm much
perplexed?!?!?
It would seem that the Trinity install should just pick up everything
from my old deb kde3 system. Did I miss something?!?
Any thoughts appreciated!
<snip>
To enable side by side installation, Trinity does not use ~/.kde. User
configuration is in ~/.trinity and the entire Trinity installation is
in /opt/trinity.
When we migrate, we typically copy .kde to .trinity,
rename /usr/bin/startkde and then create a symbolic link
named /usr/bin/startkde to /opt/trinity/bin/startkde - John
11:19 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] Questions on getting kde4(UGH) stuff, what did I do wrong?
On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 06:35 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 01:27 -0700, Chris Reid wrote:
I should mention it also supports Kiosk mode so it will honor any
KDEDIRS or XDG_DATA_DIRS variables you have set for configuration files
- John
Hi Folks,
Downloaded the U10.10 version and played with that - all went well so
I installed it to the HD and all is apparently well with the install.
Not sure what can be done about the one problem I have: I copied
(rsync) my old debian kde3.5 $HOME over to another free partition and
logged out and mounted it as /home and then logged back in. Comes up
but did not pick up *anything* of my old kde3 data. Yes, I do
have /home/me/.kde. Permaission are correct and everything looks good
but neither kde3 related data (kontact, etc.) nor desktop config were
picked up. I did get the new user wizzard as well. I'm much
perplexed?!?!?
It would seem that the Trinity install should just pick up everything
from my old deb kde3 system. Did I miss something?!?
Any thoughts appreciated!
<snip>
To enable side by side installation, Trinity does not use ~/.kde. User
configuration is in ~/.trinity and the entire Trinity installation is
in /opt/trinity.
When we migrate, we typically copy .kde to .trinity,
rename /usr/bin/startkde and then create a symbolic link
named /usr/bin/startkde to /opt/trinity/bin/startkde - John
4:01 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] Questions on getting kde4(UGH) stuff, what did I do wrong?
John A. Sullivan III wrote:
On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 01:27 -0700, Chris Reid wrote:
The Ubuntu 10.10 version trinity does use .kde3 in the /home/user folder
and it's /opt/kde3/bin
--
Jimmy Johnson
Ubuntu 10.10 - Trinity KDE 3.5.12 - EXT4 - 64-bit at sda11
Registered Linux User #380263
Hi Folks,
Downloaded the U10.10 version and played with that - all went well so
I installed it to the HD and all is apparently well with the install.
Not sure what can be done about the one problem I have: I copied
(rsync) my old debian kde3.5 $HOME over to another free partition and
logged out and mounted it as /home and then logged back in. Comes up
but did not pick up *anything* of my old kde3 data. Yes, I do
have /home/me/.kde. Permaission are correct and everything looks good
but neither kde3 related data (kontact, etc.) nor desktop config were
picked up. I did get the new user wizzard as well. I'm much
perplexed?!?!?
It would seem that the Trinity install should just pick up everything
from my old deb kde3 system. Did I miss something?!?
Any thoughts appreciated!
<snip>
To enable side by side installation, Trinity does not use ~/.kde. User
configuration is in ~/.trinity and the entire Trinity installation is
in /opt/trinity.
When we migrate, we typically copy .kde to .trinity,
rename /usr/bin/startkde and then create a symbolic link
named /usr/bin/startkde to /opt/trinity/bin/startkde - John
21 Oct
21 Oct
2:53 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] Questions on getting kde4(UGH) stuff, what did I do wrong?
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!
Also, if you installed kpat and it won't run either add /opt/kde3/games to
your path or you can just ln -s /opt/kde3/games/kpat /opt/kde3/bin/kpat.
Got an oddie with trying to run kpackage when trying to install something
which gives me a popup which says "Login Problem: Please login manually and
I am already (in the popup) in a root shell. Have not resolved this one
yet.
Moving along smartly !
Thanks everyone!
--
Ubuntu 10.10 - Trinity KDE 3.5.12 - EXT4 - 32-bit at sda2
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Jimmy Johnson <JimmyJhn(a)mailcan.com> wrote:
John A. Sullivan III wrote:
On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 01:27 -0700, Chris Reid
wrote:
The Ubuntu 10.10 version trinity does use .kde3 in the /home/user folder
and it's /opt/kde3/bin
--
Jimmy Johnson
Ubuntu 10.10 - Trinity KDE 3.5.12 - EXT4 - 64-bit at sda11
Registered Linux User #380263
Hi Folks,
Downloaded the U10.10 version and played with that - all went well so
I installed it to the HD and all is apparently well with the install.
Not sure what can be done about the one problem I have: I copied
(rsync) my old debian kde3.5 $HOME over to another free partition and
logged out and mounted it as /home and then logged back in. Comes up
but did not pick up *anything* of my old kde3 data. Yes, I do
have /home/me/.kde. Permaission are correct and everything looks good
but neither kde3 related data (kontact, etc.) nor desktop config were
picked up. I did get the new user wizzard as well. I'm much
perplexed?!?!?
It would seem that the Trinity install should just pick up everything
from my old deb kde3 system. Did I miss something?!?
Any thoughts appreciated!
<snip>
To enable side by side installation, Trinity does not use ~/.kde. User
configuration is in ~/.trinity and the entire Trinity installation is
in /opt/trinity.
When we migrate, we typically copy .kde to .trinity,
rename /usr/bin/startkde and then create a symbolic link
named /usr/bin/startkde to /opt/trinity/bin/startkde - John
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