Where oh Where is Debian KDE 3.0.3?? [Was Re: Debian gripes]
Terence Kearns
tkearns at fastmail.fm
Tue Aug 20 17:24:14 EST 2002
Mark Paine wrote:
> Quoting Terence Kearns <tkearns at fastmail.fm>:
>
>
>>I went to the KDE website and used the ftp server that they said had teh
>>
>>debian distribution. Well they must have removed it because the debian
>>
>>directory is gone now.
>>
>>This illusive kde 3.0.3 deb file is nowhere to be found.
>>
>>Anyone have any ideas where one can obtain such a mysterious jewel?
>>
>>(OK, I agree with James)
>
>
> Aarrgghhh!! Yeah it is elusive, even more so when my work proxy does
not allow
> me ftp access to things. (Mind you it also does not refresh content
nicely
> either so just about every page I go to I have to do a refresh to
ensure I get
> new content - but I digress...)
>
> KDE (kde.org) gives the following
> <http://download.kde.org/stable/3.0.3/Debian/> as a link, but I think
that gets
> redirected to an ftp session which my work proxy gags on. However, that
> directory does exist at
> <http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/KDE/stable/3.0.3/Debian/> but the
directories
> there appear to be empty. KDE 3.0.3 was only announced in the last
24hrs so
> give it a day or two for at least aarnet's mirror to copy the stuff
over. I
> would suspect that the main kde site is getting a few requests at the
moment....
> (Also look at <http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=778> for some
miniscule
> info on it including a comment from the previous aussie maintainer).
>
>
> Mark P.
> --
> .sig - TBA
> CBR AU
>
yeah, yeah, yeah, been there done all that :(
(how annying is it?)
If you can find the location of it tonight, I can download it at work
tomm, and burn it to CD and bring it to clug.
Debian sux for GUI stuff. It's always a wild goose chase :/
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