Tue, 23 Dec 2008
Downgrading from KDE 4 to KDE 3
I have been using KDE 4 for some months now, but a couple of days ago it simply could not take it anymore. It simply unbearably slow on some crucial things like ALT-F2, and to add insult to injury, everything seems to be made more gnome-ish but more unusuable. The last straw was trying to add a launcher for Opera onto the main panel, and ending up instead with my KDE menu un-moveable on the right edge of the main panel next to the clock (I will skip the details). So, downgrade time! I had installed the KDE 4 packages from the experimental repository and had added an entry to the /etc/apt/preferences, so that packages once installed from experimental would be included on apt-get upgrades, like this: A quick Google reminded me of how to downgrade in Debian: I added an entry for the normal unstable with an elevated priority: And after that, it was a simple matter of cycling through apt-get (dist-)upgrade and apt-get -f install until all packages where downgraded and their dependencies resolved. A apt-show-versions -b |grep /experimental provided me with a list of packages that remained to be removed manually. Finally, I had to apt-get install kde-base to have the KDE choice in KDM again, and I had my old KDE back- even the config remained intact, KDE 4 on Debian uses ~/.kde4. The only thing I miss is Dolphin and the nice integration on removable media.
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