Re: KDE/Qt Status in Debian dists

1999-04-08 Thread Mike Carter
Date sent: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 05:11:27 -0400 From: Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Terry Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copies to: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:Re: KDE/Qt Status in Debian dists Just bypass the whole

KDE/Qt Status in Debian dists

1999-04-07 Thread Terry Hancock
Hi, I've installed the Hamm (=2.0) distribution of Debian Linux from CD, and I intended from the start to install KDE as quickly as I could, but Debian has since gone to Slink (=2.1). On the Hamm CDs, the Qt library required by KDE is not included for licensing reasons. However, the Troll Tech

Re: KDE/Qt Status in Debian dists

1999-04-07 Thread Sean
Just bypass the whole package manager, download the source, compile and install. This way when you decide to upgrade you won't have to worry about qt-kde getting broken unless some of their support libraries change. And even if that does happen, it would just mean that you would need to

Re: KDE/Qt Status in Debian dists

1999-04-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 05:11:27 -0400, Sean wrote: Just bypass the whole package manager, download the source, compile and install. Bypassing the package manager is usually a bad idea, unless you compile the source to install outside the package manager controlled directories, e.g. by

Re: KDE/Qt Status in Debian dists

1999-04-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 00:45:31 +, Terry Hancock wrote: On the Hamm CDs, the Qt library required by KDE is not included for licensing reasons. However, the Troll Tech website claims the newer versions of Qt are free software, Qt 2.0 will be licensed under the QPL 1.0, which is a license

Re: KDE/Qt Status in Debian dists

1999-04-07 Thread Sean
J.H.M. Dassen wrote: On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 05:11:27 -0400, Sean wrote: Just bypass the whole package manager, download the source, compile and install. Bypassing the package manager is usually a bad idea, unless you compile the source to install outside the package manager controlled

Re: KDE/Qt Status in Debian dists

1999-04-07 Thread Joop Stakenborg
On Wed, 07 Apr 1999, J.H.M. Dassen wrote: On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 05:11:27 -0400, Sean wrote: Just bypass the whole package manager, download the source, compile and install. Bypassing the package manager is usually a bad idea, unless you compile the source to install outside the package