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SleepingProphet
November 8th, 2008, 10:34 PM
Yes, I know "the world has moved on" to KDE 4. I've been goofing around with it a bunch on my HTPC, and while the widgets and stuff are nice, I'd like to be able to use KDE 3 on my new MSI Wind 10" netbook. I don't want to debate the relative merits of KDE 3 vs 4, so please don't post "why would you wanna do that?!?!"

Is this as dumb as apt-get install some-magic-package from some-magic-repository? I have been Googling around but can't find the correct package that installs all the KDE 3 stuff. AFAIK I cannot just install kubuntu, as that would install KDE 4.1 which I'm trying to avoid at the moment.

BTW, Linux+netbook = WIN! The MSI Wind community has really jumped on the Ubuntu train, someone even made Deb packages for the wireless drivers! But thats off-topic :P

SleepingProphet
November 8th, 2008, 10:36 PM
I forgot to mention, I found this:
http://apt.pearsoncomputing.net/
Is this legitimate?

Spaceman9
November 8th, 2008, 11:16 PM
That is legit but I know I'm switching to sidux. Linux Mint 5 KDE and Debian also still use KDE 3.x and Debian 5 will also use KDE 3.x.