How to get kde 3.1RC5 ?

kayard · n00b Joined: 16 Dec 2002 Posts: 44

I finally managed to install KDE !!! Good and thank to who helped !!!

Now, how can I emerge kde-3.1RC5?
I wish i could write something like
emerge kde-3.1RC5
If you type "emerge kde", it installs kde 3.0.4

Secondly, I would like to erase every file in /etc/ beginning with ._cfg0000. How can I do that ?
As I want to include every subdirectory, I tried something like " rm /etc/._cfg0000* -R" but it didn't work !!! SOB !!!

Any suggestion?

Thanks

kayard

Lovechild · Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2002 7:13 pm Post subject:

edit /usr/portage/profiles/packages.mask

comment out the kde3.1rc5 packages with a #

then emerge kde (or emerge -u world if you already have kde installed)

Enjoy

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

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pilla · Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2002 9:47 pm Post subject:

You need ACCEPT_KEYWORS="~x86" (if you have a PPC, put ~ppc instead of ~x86 and so on).

kayard · n00b Joined: 16 Dec 2002 Posts: 44

Why do I have to append ACCEPT_KEYWORDS ="~x86" ?
What does it do ?
Gonna try kde 3.1 rc5 tonight...

Kayard

pilla · Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2002 11:09 pm Post subject:

It enables the unstable branch. kde 3.1rc5 is still a release candidate.

Lovechild · Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2002 11:32 pm Post subject:

qnx · Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2002 3:29 pm Post subject:

pilla · Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2002 4:08 pm Post subject:

Lovechild · Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2002 4:22 pm Post subject:

pilla · Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2002 2:43 am Post subject:

I'll be more explicit: in this case, it won't hurt. Anyway, his question was how to emerge KDE 3.1rc5, which is unstable. I think that a discussion about wether ~arch should be used (or not) by regular users could be better discussed in a new thread.