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 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.
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.
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@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
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@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@mailcan.comwrote:
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
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.
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
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:
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
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
John A. Sullivan III wrote:
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
The Ubuntu 10.10 version trinity does use .kde3 in the /home/user folder and it's /opt/kde3/bin
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@mailcan.com wrote:
John A. Sullivan III wrote:
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
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
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