Friday, May 27, 2011

KDE 4.6.3 Will Land on Debian Unstable Within a Day or Two

For all those who are waiting for KDE 4.6.3 in unstable (sid), it will be available within this week. Since this is an upgrade 4.4 to 4.6, where 4.5 was completely skipped, and KDE is packaged in a different way now than the previous releases, expect some rough times when upgrading.

Said that, things should not be too tough since several people have already taken this upgrade path qt-kde.debian.net package maintainers might have ironed out all the glitches by now.

I hope the my long awaited kdevelop 4.2 will also be made available with this release.

Please read this before upgrading. I hope my previous experience on upgrading to 4.6.2 via qt-kde would also be useful for anyone  planning for this upgrade.

Note: KDE 4.7 beta1 has been released by the upstream meanwhile.

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