KDE 2.2.1 Up

Igloo Boy writes: "The most excellent KDE developers have made KDE 2.2.1 available for download. Please check the mirrors before you flood ftp.kde.org. I will now crawl back into my igloo and warm up next to my Athlon. It gets really hot from all this compiling." Or you could just call out those 3 little letters that make ya feel so good ... a-p-t. I'm installing now. Hope you guys fixed all the bugs I reported!

Comments

Re:Upgrading...

[PhreakinPenguin]

Why not just use MandrakeUpdate ? Simple and easy.

List of mirrors

[chrandgull]

In case kde.org is slashdotted, here is a list of mirrors.

.at (Austria)

ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/hci/kde (++)
.ch (Switzerland)

ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/kde (++)
.cz (Czech Republic)

ftp://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/MIRRORS/ftp.kde.org/pu b/ kde/ (++)
"ftp://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/kde (++)
.de (Germany)

ftp://ftp.de.kde.org/pub/kde (++)
ftp://ftp.archive.de.uu.net/pub/kde (++)
ftp://ftp.fh-dortmund.de/pub/unix/kde.mirror (++) (stable tree only)
ftp://ftp.fh-heilbronn.de/pub/mirrors/kde (++)
ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/unix/X11/gui/kde (++)
ftp://bolugftp.uni-bonn.de/pub/kde (++)
ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/x11/kde (++)
ftp://ftp.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de/pub/unix/kde (++)
ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/X11/kde (++)
ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/X11/gui/kde (++)
ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/ftp. kd e.org/pub/kde (++)
ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linu x/ kde (++)
ftp://mimas.germany.net/pub/master.kde.org (+) (part only)
.pl (Poland)

ftp://ftp.task.gda.pl/pub/linux/kde (++)
ftp://ftp.tuniv.szczecin.pl/pub/kde (++)
ftp://kde.fnet.com.pl/pub/kde (++) (debian only)
ftp://ftp.task.gda.pl/pub/unix/kde (++) (Gdansk)
ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/kde (++)
ftp://ftp.man.olsztyn.pl/pub/linux/kde (++) (Olsztyn)
Northern Europe
.dk (Danmark)

ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/X/kde (+)
ftp://ftp.dkuug.dk/pub/kde (+) (stable and part of unstable)
.fi (Finland)

ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/ftp.kde.org/pub/k de (-)
.se (Sweden)

ftp://ftp.dataplus.se/pub/linux/kde (++)
ftp://ftp.se.kde.org/pub/kde (++)
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/X11/kde (++)
Southern Europe
.gr (Greece)

ftp://ftp.duth.gr/pub/kde (++)
.hr (Croatia)

ftp://ftp.linux.hr/pub/kde (-- stable tree only
.it (Italy)

ftp://ftp.futuretg.com/mirrors/ftp.kde.org/pub/k de / (++) (stable tree only)
ftp://ftp.unina.it/pub/kde (--)
.tr (Turkey)

ftp://ftp.tr.kde.org/pub/kde (++) (stable tree only)
.yu (Yugoslavia)

ftp://ftp.kde.org.yu/mirrors/ftp.kde.org (++)
Western Europe
.be (Belgium)

ftp://ftp.belnet.be/pub/mirror/ftp.kde.org/pub/k de / (++)
ftp://ftp.easynet.be/kde (++)
.es (Spain)

ftp://ftp.dit.upm.es/linux/mirrors/ftp.kde.org/p ub /kde (+) (stable tree only)
ftp://ftp.tsc.uvigo.es/pub/linux/kde (++)
.fr (France)

ftp://ftp.uvsq.fr/pub/X11/kde (++)
ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/X11/kde (++)
.ie (Ireland)

ftp://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/ftp.kde.org/pub/kde (++)
.nl (Netherlands)

ftp://ftp.nl.uu.net:/pub/kde (++)
.pt (Portugal)

ftp://ftp.dei.uc.pt/pub/kde (++)
ftp://ftp.eq.uc.pt/pub/software/unix/KDE (+)
ftp://ftp.esoterica.pt/pub/mirrors/kde (-)
.uk (United Kingdom)

ftp://ftp.net.lut.ac.uk/kde (++)
ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/Mirrors/ftp.kde.org/p ub /kde (++)
ftp://ftp.uk.kde.org/pub/kde (+)
ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.kde.org/pub/kde (++)
ftp://ftp.newnet.co.uk/pub/unix/kde (++)
Eastern Europe
.bg (Bulgaria)

ftp://ftp.digsys.bg/pub/kde (++)
.ro (Romania)

ftp://ftp.lbi.ro/pub/Linux/KDE (++)
ftp://ftp.tuiasi.ro/pub/mirrors/ftp.kde.org/pub/ kd e (++)
ftp://mirror.itcnet.ro/pub/kde (++) (stable tree only)
.ru (Russia)

ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/X11/kde (++)
Asia/Australia
.au (Australia)

ftp://ftp.au.kde.org/pub/kde (++)
.cn (China)

ftp://ftp.turbolinux.com.cn/pub/mirrors/kde (+)
.hk (Hong Kong)

ftp://ftp.dll.com.hk/pub/mirrors/KDE (++)
.il (Israel)

ftp://ftp.iglu.org.il/pub/KDE/ (++) (without snapshots)
.jp (Japan)

ftp://casper.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/mirror/kde (-)
ftp://ftp.lab.kdd.co.jp/X11/kde (++)
ftp://mirror.nucba.ac.jp/mirror/KDE (++)
ftp://sunsite.sut.ac.jp/pub/archives/linux/X/kde (++) (stable tree only)
.kr (Republic of Korea)

ftp://linux.sarang.net/mirror/desktop/kde (++)
ftp://ftp.kreonet.re.kr/pub/tools/X11/kde (+) stable tree only
.sg (Singapore)

ftp://kde.lugs.org.sg/pub/kde.org (++)
.th (Thailand)

ftp://ftp.nectec.or.th/pub/mirrors/kde (+)
.tw (Taiwan)

ftp://ftp2.sinica.edu.tw/pub2/wmgrs/kde (++)
ftp://linux.cis.nctu.edu.tw/packages/X/wm/kde (+) stable tree only
Africa
.na (Namibia)

ftp://ftp.na.kde.org/pub/kde (++)
.za (South Africa)

ftp://ftp.sun.ac.za/sites/ftp.kde.org/pub/kde (++)
America and Generic
.br (Brazil)

ftp://ftp.matrix.com.br/pub/kde (++)
.cr (Costa Rica)

ftp://ftp.ucr.ac.cr/pub/Unix/linux/kde (++)
.com

ftp://ftp.linuxberg.com/pub/KDE (++) (stable tree and apps only)
.edu

ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/kde (++) (West Lafayette, IN, USA)
ftp://canine.resnet.gatech.edu/pub/kde (+) (stable tree only)
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/kde (+) (stable tree only)
ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/kde (++) (US east coast)
ftp://mirror.chpc.utah.edu/pub/kde (++)
.net

ftp://download.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/kde (++)
ftp://ftp.archive.de.uu.net/pub/kde (+) (Germany)
ftp://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/ftp.kde.org/pub/kde (++) (Ireland)
ftp://mimas.germany.net/pub/master.kde.org (-) unstable only (Germany)
.org

ftp://ftp.us.kde.org/pub/kde (++) (Caldera Inc.)
ftp://ftp.vlug.org/software/kde (++) (Victoria, BC, Can)

Download (worldwide) by http
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/ftp .k de.org/pub/kde (++)
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/hci/kde (++)
http://www.cee.odu.edu/kde/ (++)
http://download.sourceforge.net/mirrors/kde (++)
http://ftp.eq.uc.pt/software/unix/KDE (+)
http://ftp.matrix.com.br/pub/kde (++)
http://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/kde (++)
http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.kde.org/pub/kd e (++)
http://www.uwm.edu.pl/pub/linux/distributions/sl ac kware (++) (Olsztyn)

apt isn't a pancea

[dvdeug]

Of course, apt won't install KDE 2.2.1 right now, since unstable has some library version problem (at least on my system.) Probably something got hung in incoming and it will just clear itself up in a few days.

Mirrors

[nomis80]

The right URL for FTP mirrors would be http://www.kde.org/mirrors.html.

Re:2.2.1 Changelog?

[KeLp]

Fortunatly they used the same naming scheme for their html files as they had for previous change logs :)

http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelog2_2to2 _2 _1.html

Last stable release until February

[infiniti99]

According to this release plan, KDE 2.2.1 will be the last stable KDE release for quite some time. Planned for release in February is KDE3.0, which will essentially be the same 2.x architecture but based on Qt 3.0. They are going to call it KDE3.0 mainly because it will break binary compatibility with 2.x. It will not be a rewrite like KDE2 was.

Of course, KDE is notorious for frequent releases, so I would imagine there will be betas / release candidates every 6 weeks or so until the final 3.0.

Happy downloading/compiling/etc!

Changes between 2.2 and 2.2.1

[CtrlPhreak]

Link:Changes Changes between KDE 2.2 and KDE 2.2.1

This page tries to present as much as possible of the problem corrections that occurred in KDE between the 2.2 and 2.2.1 releases. The primary goals of the 2.2.1 release being more complete documentation and translations, the amount of code change is quite minimal - only the most critical bugs have been fixed, the rest of the development is currently being done in the branch that will lead to the KDE 3.0 release.

General

• Many improvements to translations and documentation

kdelibs

• arts: compile fixes, single threaded option.
• KRFCDate: fix for eastern timezones.
• KTempFile: fix for problem when fileExtension contained "X".
• Improved checking for IPv6 support.
• KPasswordEdit: slightly better in understanding non-ASCII characters.
• KXMLGUI: fix for problem with reading xml file completely.
• KFile: file preview fixes.
• KHTML: Various html & CSS fixes.
• Improved large file support.
• HTTP: Better support for https through proxy.
• HTTP: Improved handling of HTTP-cookies.
• HTTP: Fixed security problem with abuse of HTTP POST.
• Optimisations to improve KDE startup time.
• KDED: All tasks can now be disabled through config file.
• KSpell: support for Lithuanian and Belarusian.
• KSSL: OpenBSD fixes.

kdeaddons

• User Agent plugin: various fixes.
• Kate Plugins: made translatable.

kdeadmin

• KPackage: various fixes.
• Kwuftpd: various fixes.

kdeartwork No changes kdebase

• Kate: corrected bug wrt last line.
• Desktop Wallpaper: small fixes.
• KControl: fixes for NetBSD & OpenBSD info.
• KDesktop: fix problem with icon positions on desktop.
• KDesktop: fixed sever bug where renaming a file on the desktop would destroy it.
• Kicker: mini-pager can be used to switch desktop during drag&drop.
• AudioCD: Vorbis fixes.
• IMAP: Handle folders that contain # or ? in their names correctely.
• SMB: Better error reporting.
• Thumbnail io-slave: fixes.
• klipper: changes in configuration file format.
• Konqueror: compile fixes.
• Konqueror:minor fixes.
• Konsole: many fixes.
• Konsole: added --noxft option to disable AA.
• Konsole: added "tripple click" support.
• KPersonalizer: Fixed bug that inadvertently turned "shade hover" on. (This makes the window roll up till only the title bar is left when the mouse is over the title bar for some time)
• ScreenSavers: show screen saver in front of the desktop instead of behind it.
• KSMServer: Provide error diagnostics for common KDE instalation problems.
• KSysGuard: various fixes.
• KWin B2 decration: fixes.
• KWin: Fix for freeze with CDE-style alt-tab.
• Netscape Plugin Scan: Don't crash on incompatible libs.

kdebindings

• Many updates.

kdegames

• KAtomic: Fixed various incorrect chemical names.

kdegraphics

• kdvi: various fixes.
• kgv: small fixes.
• kview: various fixes.

kdemultimedia

• Some compile fixes.
• noaun: small fix.

kdenetwork

• KMail: various fixes.
• KNode: Fix 1e9 problem.
• KPgp: various fixes.

KDEPIM

• korganizer: small fix.
• kpilot: fix syncing problems.

KDESDK

• kbabel: small fix.

KDEToys

• KScore: small fix.

KDEUtils

• Kab: compile fix.
• Kpm: fix for Linux 2.4.

KDdevelop

• kdevelop: avoid khtml crash on restoring files also with KDE-2.2.0
• kdevelop: gcc 3.0 compile fix.
• kdevelop: Fix find dialog.
• kdevelop: Various fixes.

KDoc No changes.

objprelink

[dimator]

Don't forget the objprelink. I've used it to build Qt and KDE 2.2 and it has made a difference. (Although windows is still faster, UI-wise.)

Re:objprelink

[Anonymous Coward]

Bzzz!

objprelink was *specifically* developed to speed up kde start-up time, and it only works on ELF systems.

So, you might wish to get a clue, or even several...

Looking around, you can find several analysis of kde problems, and how to solve them.

* kdeinit: instead of loading all shared libraries for every application, just load kdeinit once (it holds most libraries, e.g., qt, kdecore, kdelibs...) and fork it with the right arguments each time you want a new application.
So, the `binaries' are just stubs that possibly start kdeinit and tell it (in its klaunch mode) to load the actual application (the .so file).
So, you never get to reload all libraries beyond the first start-up.

* --enable-final. Most kde source is structured so that you can either compile all files independently, or compile all files for a given application in one go. As a result, the compiler does most of the linking work, and there are many fewer relocations left in the resulting file (all relocations internal to the library have already been done).

* objprelink. So, we're just left with the time it takes to resolve many-to-many relocations between libraries. This is especially noticeable for virtual functions, but this is a detail. What objprelink does is process these relocations thru an indirection, so that you end up with one-to-many instead: in a given file, find all relocations that point to a given symbol, and make them go through a single indirect location. This slows the running code a little bit (not much), but this effectively removes all-but-one ld.so resolutions for that symbol. To achieve that, one must be able to manipulate object files effectively, a thing which is much simpler to do with ELF, and hard with the other object format changes.

* gcc improvements. Now we're hitting the future. Those problems in code loading time for shared code (pic stuff) have been properly identified, and applications the size of kde are becoming more and more important. This is a somewhat more important change, but rearranging code generation to minimize the number of relocations for many cases is a clear win. This is what's going to happen in a year or two, as work on this hasn't really actually started yet.

Mirror

[Kevin DeGraaf]

Mirror located here: kde-2.2.1. Have fun!

Re:A-P-T?

[reverius]

I've lost my entire debian system twice due to using the unstable version.

By upgrading to the latest unstable software on a daily basis, my system was completely trashed.

First it was a glibc problem (I don't remember what), then it was an overwritten file that caused me to not be able to log in. I had to re-install the whole system, and I've used Debian Stable ever since.

There are some ways you can make Debian Stable a lot more modern than you might think...

kde.debian.net gives you the latest KDE...

Ximian offers the latest gnome for Debian potato (stable)...

and gnulpr offers a printing system (easily set up) that can be installed through apt with debian stable.

Re:A-P-T?

[z4ce]

If you don't know how to fix library problems, do nott use unstable. They will happen. However, you can fix them. That's what emergency disks are for. Boot off your emergency disk, download + install the old library or a new fixed one. Most of the time you don't even have to get that drastic though.. you can either go into single user mode or boot the kernel with init=/bin/sh before you go losing your system you might want to talk with the people in #debian irc.openprojects.net I can almost guarantee your system wasn't actually lost.. I've been dist-upgrading to unstable everyday to every other day now for the last say two years or so.

Ian

Re:Sick of Big Downloads? Switch to Linux...

[Anonymous Coward]

Depending on the hardware you and your isp are running, externals usually do get better performance. Don't ask me why. There are at least 3 versions of USR modems, the X2, K56Flex, and, then the addition of true v90 standards to the product line. If your telephone lines supports it (most do in the cities and suburbs), than v90 makes a noticable difference. If your internal wasn't V90 and your external is, that's the answer right there.

Re:Upgrading...

[RadioheadKid]

Last time I upgraded Mandrake 8.0 to KDE 2.2 and used urpmi as it says in the README and it worked perfectly. Its just kinda scary when you have to tell it to break all the dependancies.

RPMs for Redhat available.

[Anonymous Coward]

RPMS for Redhat are available at:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/

Re:RedHat binaries for stock 7.1 (seawolf)

[bero-rh]

I realize that this might be causing problems for some people, but there reasons are simple: timing issues.

Try maintaining 215 packages while not giving up your own devel projects, and you'll know what I mean.

If a day had 48 hours, I'd of course provide RPMs for 7.1, 7.0 and probably even 6.x - but the way things are now, I simply don't have the time to set up boxes with old systems to rebuild the packages and work around legacy compiler bugs (egcs 1.1.x is a pain).

If you want to rebuild them, feel free to do so. In the mean time, I think it's more important to have a nice KDE in the upcoming release, so that's what I'm focusing on.

Well done, TurboLinux, KDE.

[Karma Sucks]

"In response to customer demand, we have made KDE the default desktop environment in the latest release of our Turbolinux Workstation product," said Dino Brusco, VP of Marketing at Turbolinux Inc. "Our customers really appreciate the features and stability that KDE provides and we will be offering this latest version of KDE in an upcoming release of our Turbolinux Server product."

(from: http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-2.2.1.ht ml)

Well, this just just goes to show that all that hard work from the KDE camp has paid off, despite poor advertising and marketing when compared to the competition. Good job all around!

Re:rpm hell

[Anonymous Coward]

I upgraded roswell without a single problem. Rosewell is the beta release of RedHat's 7.2 or whatever.

Again, this was the smoothest upgrade I have ever experienced for KED on RedHat.