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On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Rohan Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > Project Neon needs little or no introduction for those who have used it in > the past.For those who haven't heard of it, it provides Nightly builds of > KDE. Some time ago, the project was abandoned because of maintenance issues, > and now its back with a bang.Sort of, read on to find out ;) . > > For the past 5-6 months we have been trying to ressurect Project Neon [0], > and we have been partially successful, for most part the base packages which > are required to run KDE are in the PPA, more info on what packages are > available are here [1]. Most of these packages have been compiled with all > build dependencies satisfied with the exception of KDE Bindings which is > still being packaged.Even the Qt packages have been taken from the kde-qt > branch. > > Note that Neon is currently in a pre-alpha condition and might not work for > you at a particular time, this might be due to issues in KDE itself or our > packaging.If you find a packaging issue, please report it on launchpad > against the Neon PPA ( using the ubuntu-bug tool ) and any KDE bugs go into > the KDE Bug tracker. > > Some of the current issues we face [2]. You can also expect Project Neon to > be completely broken during KDE's move to git, please give us some time to > fix our imports after the migration is over. > > I'd like to warn you again that these are pre-alpha builds and should be > installed only by the adventurous and brave hearted.The packages are > installed in /opt/project-neon leaving your main system unharmed, and also > gives you the flexibility to remove them without fear of removing any stable > KDE packages. > > Install instructions : Step 1) Add the Project Neon PPA with : sudo > add-apt-repository ppa:/neon/ppa > Step 2) sudo apt-get update > Step 3) sudo apt-get install project-neon-all > [ to install the complete KDE SC release, except for bindings which are > being worked upon at the moment ] OR sudo apt-get install > > project-neon-base ( should be available in a > few hours ) > Step 4) Logout of Stable KDE > Choose Project > Neon in KDM > Login with your username and password. All your Project Neon > settings are stored in a seprate folder away from > your stable KDE ~/.kde folder > > Have fun testing these pre-alpha builds! > > [0] https://launchpad.net/~neon/+archive/ppa > [1] > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/ProjectNeon/Packaging?highlight=(ProjectNeon) > > [2] https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/ProjectNeon/Issues > Regards > Rohan Garg > Regards > Rohan Garg > > > -- > kubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel > >
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