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Installing KDE 4.2 on Debian

Using apt pinning, we'll be able to run KDE 4.2 on a debian testing release.

Apt pinning

First, configure apt pinning to get experimental repository access on demand, vim /etc/apt/preferences

 Package: *
 Pin: release a=testing
 Pin-Priority: 900
 
 Package: *
 Pin: release a=unstable
 Pin-Priority: 800
 
 Package: *
 Pin: release a=experimental
 Pin-Priority: 700

Add experimental repository at your sources.list, vim /etc/apt/sources.list

 ## pinning sid
 deb http://ftp2.fr.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
 deb-src http://ftp2.fr.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
 
 ## pinning experimental
 deb http://ftp2.fr.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free
 deb-src http://ftp2.fr.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free

Then, update repository, aptitude update.

KDE 4.2 from experimental repository installation

You are now able to install KDE4, just install the meta-package kde4 from the experimental repository, aptitude install -t experimental kde4

Enjoy

TODO

Uninstallation

FIXME works?
You can remove KDE4 easily, aptitude remove --purge kde4

Initial author: olivier Last modification date: January the 30th, 2009 by olivier.