Getting KDE2 for Slackware users (and maybe others)

[X_console]

KDE2 has been released for Slackware. I've been thinking about trying it out, so I made a nifty little script that downloads it for me. It is designed to download from the Slackware FTP site, but if you like you could modify it to download the source files from the KDE FTP site as well.


#!/bin/sh
# getKDE v0.1 - get KDE2 Slack tarballs
# X_console (xconsole@moonfrog.org)

# location of the KDE packages:
SERVER="ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slakware/kde1"

# package names:
p0="htdig.tgz"
p1="kadmin.tgz"
p2="kdebase.tgz"
p3="kdegames.tgz"
p4="kdelibs.tgz"
p5="kdepim.tgz"
p6="kdetoys.tgz"
p7="kdeutils.tgz"
p8="kgraphic.tgz"
p9="kmedia.tgz"
p10="knetwork.tgz"
p11="koffice.tgz"
p12="ksupport.tgz"
p13="qt_2_21.tgz"
p14="kdoc.tgz"
p15="kde-i18n.tgz"

# now let's grab them:
for pkg in $p0 $p1 $p2 $p3 $p4 $p5 $p6 $p7 $p8 $p9 $p10 $p11 $p12 $p13 $p14
do
wget -v $SERVER/$pkg
done


Have fun.

[ph34r]

You forgot to do the installpkg as part of it http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif


#!/bin/sh
# getKDE v0.1 - get KDE2 Slack tarballs
# X_console (xconsole@moonfrog.org)
# location of the KDE packages:
SERVER="ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slakware/kde1"
# package names:
p0="htdig.tgz"
p1="kadmin.tgz"
p2="kdebase.tgz"
p3="kdegames.tgz"
p4="kdelibs.tgz"
p5="kdepim.tgz"
p6="kdetoys.tgz"
p7="kdeutils.tgz"
p8="kgraphic.tgz"
p9="kmedia.tgz"
p10="knetwork.tgz"
p11="koffice.tgz"
p12="ksupport.tgz"
p13="qt_2_21.tgz"
p14="kdoc.tgz"
p15="kde-i18n.tgz"
# now let's grab them:
for pkg in $p0 $p1 $p2 $p3 $p4 $p5 $p6 $p7 $p8 $p9 $p10 $p11 $p12 $p13 $p14
do
wget -v $SERVER/$pkg
done
echo "Downloading complete. Now installing ... "
for pkg in $p0 $p1 $p2 $p3 $p4 $p5 $p6 $p7 $p8 $p9 $p10 $p11 $p12 $p13 $p14
do
installpkg $pkg
done



Of course, you need to be root when you run this for the installpkg part to work.

[X_console]

Actually I intentionally left that out. I'm pretty paranoid about doing autoinstall (this coming from the guy who wrote an auto upgrade program for Slackware). http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/biggrin.gif I just never know what it's going to overwrite. Heh.

I installed it... but ended up uninstalling it. I'll post my opinions on KDE2 in the Window Manager forum...

[Sterling]

For Debian users, the listed lines for sources.list seemed to work fine for me when I tried the second beta release. Of course, I'm a GNOME type, so I've not tried the full release yet.

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-Sterling
-This post made with the Lizard! (http://www.mozilla.org)