Re: Version numbers? (WAS Re: Pre-installed Debian: two questions)

2006-08-14 Thread Hodgins Family
> How can I find out what version number KDE would call this > Debian "kde" package? OR, how could I find out what version > number Debian would call KDE 3.5.4? > > I suspect the same situation exists with other packages, so I'm > hoping for a general procedure I can follow, not simply the > answ

Version numbers? (WAS Re: Pre-installed Debian: two questions)

2006-08-14 Thread David J. Bush
Leonid Grinberg told me: | Stable gets old very quickly, but is, like its name implies, | very stable. This led me to wonder, just how far out of date are the Debian packages? For example, I would like to work using KDE. On the KDE website at http://kde.org/ it says that KDE 3.5.4 is the latest