KDE4.3 beta issues

[Terrell Prude' Jr.]

Answers in-line.  At the end are instructions to get KDE 4.3 Beta1 
installed on Jaunty.

--TP

Goh Lip wrote:
> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">Terrell 
> Prude' Jr. wrote:
>
>>
>> I just upgraded my Jaunty installation to KDE 4.3 Beta1 (aka KDE 
>> 4.2.85) this evening.  I have no need to go back to KDE 4.2.x, since 
>> the whole point is (for me) to test out the latest KDE.
>>
>
> When doing update/upgrade, did you noticed whether there is any entry 
> in the 'experimental' repository? (that's where the kde 4.3 is, not to 
> be confused with the 'ppa' repository which is kde 4.2.3), or to put 
> it another way, was the 'experimental' repository updated/upgraded?
>
> Also, can you get into Adept or Kpackage?

Using Adept.  Works just fine.

>
> Can you access another partition by clicking it on Dolphin?

I primarily use Konqueror as the file manager, but yes, it does work in 
both Dolphin and Konqueror.

>
> Can you extract a .zip file by ark in Dolphin?

Dunno if it's using ark, but opening .zip files (and .tar.gz files) 
works fine from Dolphin.

>
> Does Kaffeine play?

I use MPlayer, and it works fine.

>
> Kmail works?

I use Evolution due to MS Exchange Server at work.

>
> Suspend to Disk/RAM works?

Desktop box.

>
> You got back your desktop?

Yup, sure did.  My history in Konqueror was gone, but my bookmarks were 
all there.

>
> I know Firefox and Thunderbird works fine but for the average user who 
> wants more than Firefox/Thunderbird in Jaunty Kde 4.3 beta, there will 
> be lots of bugs to report.


Here's how to do it, with comments.

Include this in your /etc/apt/sources.list file.  Naturally, you can do 
it with Synaptic, the command line, Adept, or whatever.

   deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/experimental/ubuntu jaunty main

Then execute the following, either as sudo or as root.

sudo apt-get clean
     1. sudo apt-get update
     1. sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
     1. sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb
     1. sudo apt-get dist-upgrade  (this might not work, see step 6)
     1. dpkg -i --force-overwrite 
/var/cache/apt/archives/kdepim-kresources_4%3a4.2.85-0ubuntu1~jaunty1~ppa5_i386.deb  
(apt-get got hung up on kdepim-kresources, so I also had to issue this 
now for apt-get to work)
     1. sudo apt-get install plasma-widget-folderview
     1.

Log out, restart X11, and you should be running KDE 4.3 Beta.  Really 
wasn't that bad.

The link I got this from originally is here.  Murphy's Law of course 
says it needed a little further tweaking.  :-)  That's what the above is.

  
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=9232020d1665935657423b6129bb11cd&t=1157594&page=2