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Just attempted to access the test repo at Debian NZ. No luck, Error report said cannot find it. Tried to reload the main, again nothing. It was okay this morning. Will try again in about 16 hours, i.e. tomorrow morning.
http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/dists/

http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/dists ...

I have been using Jessie backports for a KDE4 install for over 2 months with no problems. the same with systemd in Jessie,
it should be interesting when plasma 5 gets into Debian, because that requires systemd by default.

kent, I did a basic KDE install from Jessie and Jessie backports what is ...

Jessie backports, has 4.14.2

I guess I do not fully understand
I meant that after installing KDE, people should check that they have all the packages needed. You get a very basic kde with limited capabilities unless you get recommended and suggested for your most used apps.
This was meant for newbies.
Henry
Understand ...

8.3 KDE on MX Linux

Recommended System Requirements to run 32bit KDE4 in Debian Wheezy

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo or above, AMD K10 (Phenom) or above

RAM: 1GB (memory): (32bit),

HDD (free disk space): 30GB or above

Graphics: 64MB with OpenGL 3.0 or above (64MB is still very very basic, I ...

Edited the how to to read, which will be posted later today,

The options for installing KDE4 using MX package Installer are
kde-standard package, A debian selection of common applications
kde-lite package, This is a minimalist plasma desktop install. You have to install all end-user ...

I think he is referring to the fact that thunar still appears in the caution about device notifier. Since Dolphin is the default file manager thunar is not in play.
True, as for editing how many versions of KDE4 are in Wheezy (stable),
in both cases, the available installation candidate is KDE ...

Jerry3904 wrote:Now after a later read-through I am seeing a number of "infelicities" ... good thing we have this review time built in!

So can I, Thunar??, Links missing.

I will post an updated version later today as it 12.35am here.

MX 15 on the Jessie base should have KDE 4.14.2 available--I'm using it in a Jessie VM, and it's very much like the Wheezy version--no new plasma widgets as part of the stock install, no new desktop effects, and so on. I'm sure there are lots of changes under the hood. I do notice that Dolphin has ...

8.3 KDE on MX Linux
You may be very disappointed with the graphics rendering OOTB for gtk applications. This may need some work. If you use the oxygen theme, be sure that both gtk2-engines-oxygen and gtk3-engines-oxygen are installed and be sure to select oxygen-gtk in System Settings ...