Hi all, want to come back to this thread since I ran again into the old problem when KDE 4.11 came out. I could avoid it by not upgrading KDE, but when it came to upgrading to Kubuntu 13.10 there was no way around it any more. And of course, during the upgrade process all my KDE3 applications should have been uninstalled. That is why I did some research to find an updated version of kdelibs4c2a, which did not conflict with KDE 4.11.
Eventually I stumbled upon this post http://www.binarytides.com/install- quanta-plus-ubuntu-13-04/ about installing Quanta plus under Raring. And it worked for me. The thus installed Quanta survived the upgrade from Raring to Saucy and runs under KDE 4.11. Big drawback: all my other KDE3 application were gone, since the original kdelibs4c2a was uninstalled during the upgrade process. And for some reason they were not in the Trinity packages. But I still could find them on lauchpad: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/i386/ Here I searched for all the packages I needed and downloaded them. Then I edited them acording to the procedure proposed by @robegue in post #17. I basically did two things: 1. I moved all stuff whch was found under /usr to /opt/kde3, where the Trinity packeges are installed 2. I edited the control file to change the dependencies which basically means I added -kde3 to kdelibs4c2a, since the Trinity project renamed all packages by adding -kde3. Last but not least I added /opt/kde3/bin to the PATH variable to make sure that the programs can be evoked by their name instead of the full path. Probalbly it would be wise to add something to the man path etc. too, but I couldn't be bothered. @Silver Moon: as described above one gets Quanta plus running under 13.10. But you have to make sure to uninstall the kdelibs4c2a package as well as the old kdelibs-data. @Martin Schläffer: with the kde3 maintainers repository already exists a PPA which holds a working kdelibs4c2a. The only thing, not all programs found their way into this repo. What about publishing the missing packages on your PPA? I could contribute hacked lucid packages for klamav, kleansweep, knmap, knoda, kstreamripper and ktranslator. But it would be a good idea if someone with more insight in packaging would have a look at my packages first. Have fun. Knut -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1100622 Title: package kdelibs5-plugins (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/ktelnetservice', which is also in package kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-3ubuntu2.10.04.1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/+bug/1100622/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs