Slackpkg and KDE4

[leutzdave]

I'm having trouble with slackpkg wanting to replace kde4 packages with kde3 ones.

What is the right way to setup slackpkg for use with testing/kde4?

Would adding
kde3
to /etc/slackpkg/blacklist do the trick?

Change the download priority in /etc/slackpkg/slackpkg.conf moving "testing" to the head of the list?

Change dialog interface behavior to have all packages unselected by default with
ONOFF=off
and being "very carefull" what you allow to upgrade?

[Freston]

Welcome to the forums!

I guess adding kde3 to the blacklist wont work, because kde3 related packages are in the system as just plain 'kde'.

But if you run kde4, I guess it wont be too much work to blacklist the whole of 'kde' and upgrade kde4 related packages manually??

cat `which slackpkg`

shows that the blacklist matches a pattern with grep, so kde3 will not be a matched pattern.

Unselecting everything and carefully choosing which to install is a good alternative, but perhaps running slackpkg in 'download mode' and removing everything kde3 related and installing manually (just installpkg *tgz in the right directory) may be easier.

[leutzdave]

So, maybe the thing to do is to come up with a complete list of kde3 packages, possibly from the kde3 uninstall script (testing/pacages/kde4/remove-kde3.sh) and throw those into /etc/slackpkg/blacklist

amarok kdeaccessibility kdeaddons kdeadmin kdeartwork kdebase kdebindings kdeedu kdegames kdegraphics kdelibs kdemultimedia kdenetwork kdepim kdesdk kdetoys kdeutils kdevelop kdewebdev knemo koffice ktorrent

arts qca qca-tls qt

kde-i18n koffice-l10n

Edit: also add
kdeedu kdegames

Then one could easily update the bulk of the packages using
slackpkg update
slackpkg install-new
slackpkg upgrade-all
and just do the kde4 packages manually.