Where oh Where is Debian KDE 3.0.3?? [Was Re: Debian gripes]

[Terence Kearns]

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 :/