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The only link to a download location I've seen is at www.apt-get.org
I haven't seen a 'HOW-TO' posted anywhere.

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Original von Anonymous

Hello all,
I am a long time Slackware user who has recently installed Debian for the first time. I installed the latest Debian 'stable' release and upgraded to the 'testing' packages. Has anyone upgraded to kde 3.1 yet? Debian 'testing' currently has kde 2.2.2 (not exactly recent). Does anyone have a 'how-to' link on upgrading to 3.1 from 2.2.2 in Debian?
Thanks and keep up the good work.

remember you really should to a lot of reading before you use a distro, debian has three types.

stable - latest stable release, its rock solid and has minimal dependency errors

unstable - pretty stable itself and HAS KDE 3.1, it comes with latest packages etc for peeps who want the bleeding edge but with out dependency errors

testing - next stable release, prolly becomes stable in a yr from now.

you want unstable, i suggest you look up docs on how to go back to unstable from testing or reinstall debian. use netinstall with the bf2.4 flavor, which means 2.4 kernel rather than 2.2

when you've installed from the netinstall operation go into your /etc/apt/sources.list and change everything that says stable to unstable (cept for security.debian.org) and then do:
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

and sit back, watch the upgrade.

after that you can do this: apt-get install kdebase
to get the kdebase, then goto the KDE install faq and get the rest of the packages necessary, as for yesturday though kdepim and kdemutlimedia were old and kdenetwork doesn't exist.

other packages you'll need (apt-get install x)
kdesktop
kicker
kdeartwork
kdegraphics

thats what i can think of at the top of my head.

if you have a problem with icons when ur a regular user (i had this prob) goto your /usr/share/icons and change the permissions so regular users can read it.