I had to fall back to 11.04 because of kernel problems. It is the last version that works on my laptop. When I previously had 11.04 installed the backports repo had the KDE 4.7 updates. I found the news article here and added the repo, but KDE 4.7 is no longer there. http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kde-4.7 Does anyone know what happened?
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Klaatu Barada Nikto -
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Browsing to the https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/backports ; clik: View package details; click: "Any status":
A Natty package - kalgebra:
Whykalgebra (4:4.7.2-0ubuntu1~natty1~ppa1)
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Removed from disk on 2012-03-22.
Removal requested on 2012-03-22.
Deleted on 2012-03-22 by Jonathan Riddell
Published on 2011-10-26
Copied from ubuntu natty in Private PPA for Kubuntu Ninjas
You could ask this from the Kubuntu developers. maybe from the kubuntu-devel irc...
My guess:
- It is a PPA repository, not a stable repository with a planned EOL /1/ day.
- The Natty/KDE 4.7 was unmaintained: "There's only so many of us and we can only package for so many releases" /2/.
1. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases
2. Asked with the KDE 4.8.3: http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2012/05/05...ntu-devel.html
Ezim ScottK, mean if I wanted 4.8.3 for my 11.10. will ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports not get it? [17:55]
ScottK We don't package that. [17:56]
ScottK We'll do 4.8.3 for 12.04 and quantal. [17:56]
Ezim ScottK, weird becuase 4.8.2 was there. [17:56]
ScottK That was before 12.04 was released. [17:57]
Ezim so I will not get 4.8.3. going to cry. [17:57]
Ezim :P [17:57]
ScottK The way to get it is upgrade to 12.04. [17:57]
ScottK There's only so many of us and we can only package for so many releases. [17:58Last edited by OneLine; Jun 17, 2012, 06:14 AM.
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