Quanta on KDE4

Thank you Mr Biernacki!

KDE4 undoubtedly will evolve to be as functional as KDE 3.5, but for now it's 
not usable for working people. Your solution is a great workaround.


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Alan C. Whiteman
Visualis Web Design
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On Friday 30 October 2009 04:00:50 [email protected] wrote:
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> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:59:35 +0100
> From: Waldemar Biernacki <[email protected]>
> Subject: [Quanta] How I have installed quanta plus on kde4 in debian
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> Hello!
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> All my story is on debian command "uname -a: gets:
>
> Linux borsuk 2.6.30-2-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Sep 25 22:16:56 UTC 2009 x86_64
> GNU/Linux
>
> I had installedKDE 4.* (accidentally!) and decided to live in this... I
> can't live without quanta so I was looking for how to get it: i tried
> virtualbox - hmmm... not natural in using..., after some searching I have
> found than in debian I can try its unique solution: debian is able to
> manage package installation paralelly from different versions. I did it in
> the following way:
>
> 1. I have installed all kde4 using "apt-get install ?" commands
> 2. When full kde 4 worked I have changed  the file: /etc/apt/sources.list:
>
> instead normal lines: (hash-out them):
> # normal:
> #deb http://ftp.vectranet.pl/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
> #deb-src http://ftp.vectranet.pl/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
> #deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
> #deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
>
> I have added the lines:
> # to install quanta from stable distr:
> deb http://ftp.vectranet.pl/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
> deb-src http://ftp.vectranet.pl/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
>
> saved changes and normal stuff (be carefull not to change KDE 4 but I had
> no dangerous warnings): apt-get update
> apt-get install quanta
>
> (maybe other packages which apt-get require - I do not remember). Since
> then I have quanta plus on kde 4. All works but without sftp which is for
> me the most important (apart of local :) ), but works! Then I changed
> sources.list file to the previous version, then did apt-get update again
> and then blocked in synaptic this quanta plus packages (not to be
> accidentally changed).
>
> Quanta works this way since spring this year as a every-day tool for perl,
> php, sql, TeX, html, css, haskel, and other types. I have recently got the
> information that the package kdebase-kio-plugins is responsible for the
> sftp protocol. So I did again all the stuff but with the followin command :
>
> apt-get install kdebase-kio-plugins
>
> Now I have quanta plus with my favorite remote protocol sftp.
>
> I hope it could be usefull for someone.
>
> Regards.
> Waldemar
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