Comments on: how-to: keep your kde 3.5 after it’s removed from gentoo’s tree, using the kde-sunset overlay

By: Rickj

Rickj — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 22:34:25 +0000

Thanks for a useful HOWTO.

I have no interest in KDE, since 4 is slow and buggy, whilst 3.5 is becoming hard to maintain. But I *do* need qcad, which requires qt3. This keeps my qcad running.

By: konsolebox

konsolebox — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:08:17 +0000

Thanks for the guide. I also tried kde4 but I still prefer 3.5. Lots of things were lost in kde4 like: speedy control + beeps in konsole

By: Harry

Harry — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:38:11 +0000

@Steve

Unmask the dependencies. Its thats simple.

By: boni

boni — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:18:16 +0000

/usr/local/portage/layman now is in /var/lib/layman/

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 28 May 2010 15:10:57 +0000

Did a sync today, there are several packages that have been masked that are needed for kde3, koffice, kphotoalbum. Even the kdelibs now appear to be masked!!!
‘!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy “kde-base/kdelibs:3.5″ have been masked.”‘
What do we do now??? HELP!!!!! I don’t want KDE4!!!!

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sat, 22 May 2010 03:05:43 +0000

By: Roberto

Roberto — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:07:34 +0000

I am struggling trying to install amarok-1.4 from kde-sunset. All the compiling works OK, but at the end it complains stating that libamarok.so cannot be found. Were you able to install it? I also think Amarok-2 is not good for me.

thanks
Roberto

By: Dyllan

Dyllan — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:03:03 +0000

First off thank you Alex for the overlay! I manage around 200 KDE Desktops off of 1 server and a recent upgrade to KDE4 did not go down well. I franticly searched for a way to downgrade to KDE-3.5 and came across this posting which was effortless.

My setup is a bit different as it is configured for a work environment so there is no multimedia, I use split-ebuilds, but managed to get the desired KDE configuration. Anybody else who is using split-ebuilds and required assistance with using this overlay I will be happy to assist.

Lastly I noticed that the kiosktool is not included in the sunset portage, is there any possibility of including it, I rely greatly on it.

Thanks again,
Dyllan

By: Ian Ballantyne

Ian Ballantyne — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:26:07 +0000

By: Vndecid

Vndecid — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:26:45 +0000

Hi…I have a question.I try to install the package gtk-engines-qt …but there isnt this packages for kde 3.5 in “KDE-SUNSET”….Why??