Hi Martin, On Sunday, January 27, 2013 08:57:39 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Hi Mike! > > > 1) Use Wheezy. As I wrote it still has KDEPIM 1 as of KDE SC 4.4.11 which > means that it will have it during its complete lifetime according to the > Debian stable policy. I am writing from such a KDEPIM 1 :). In fact its the > only KDEPIM available officially as of today. > > > 2) I strongly recommend you to subscribe and follow debian-kde mailing > list. Its a low volume, high signal to noise ratio mailing list where > Debian kde users are subscribed to, also experienced ones!, as well as > Debian Qt/KDE maintainers and some KDE upstream developers. There has been > a discussion about KDEPIM 2 in KDE SC 4.10 recently for example. > > > 3) You can find some KDE SC install instructions on the website of the > Debian Qt/KDE maintainers: > > http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/ > > These give an overview over the packaging structure. > > > 4) If after a while you feel adventurous or want to try possible newer > versions, read: > > http://qt-kde.debian.net/ > > Currently there are KDE SC 4.9.5 base packages available there which work > quite nicely. Stay away from them for now tough, in case you use KDEPIM > with mutiple identifies with different sent folders as that is broken > currently. And really subscribe debian-kde mailing list if you intend to > use packages from there. > > > Hope this increases the signal to noise ratio in that thread again a bit. > > Ciao,
Thanks for the tip. I'll try Wheezy in a VM first as I did with Squeeze. I seem to prefer the Debian way of doing things over Ubuntu anyway. For instance I always create a root account. Mike -- Mike McGinn KD2CNU Ex Uno Plurima No electrons were harmed in sending this message, some were inconvenienced. ** Registered Linux User 377849 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201301271401.07336.mikemcg...@mcginnweb.net