It's been a long week and a half!!!
Hey Hello!
A week and a half ago (seems like an eternity) I left my PCLinuxOS KDE 3.5 which has been my home for the last 6+ years because they went all KDE 4 on me. Just something about KDE4 that really bugs me. Well, and, I couldn't install Kdenlive either. While searching for a new distro I learned of e17 and of course elive among others. First I tried elive by downloading it then learned I couldn't install it so I went all Zeitgeist! Of course I found I couldn't install Kdenlive there either easily so I quickly jumped to GOS, OpenGeu, Ubuntu with e17, Mint 9 lxde with e17, MoonOS and even PCLinuxOSE17... well, you know how it goes- if it's not one thing it's another! I had MoonOS all setup and watching videos online froze my pc. The same thing happened with PCLinux and then Ubuntu and Mint... argghh! I wanted Kdenlive dammit!
Last night I bit the bullet and made the donation and installed elive. Getting Kdenlive installed went very well but took a long long time. First I updated the system. Then added the ftp.de.debian.org/debian main sid (deb and src) to synaptic repositories. That reloaded fine and even showed Kdenlive 7.7.1. However upon trying to install it it wanted to remove e17. So I didn't use synaptic. I used 'aptitude safe-upgrade' in the terminal- hoping I wouldn't break the system. And it upgraded and I didn't lose the system! Then I went back to synaptic and tried Kdenlive again but had errors about ffmpeg and others that 'were not going to be installed. I added the 'debian-multimedia.org sid main' and 'debian-multimedia.org testing main' and went straight to the terminal- aptitude install kdenlive- I think. For a week and a half I've been trying one thing after another so don't quote me. Anyway- it went in! At one point during the initial 'safe-upgrade' I got the desktop failure window but the console was still working in the background so I waited until all was finished.
I'm not sure it's stable. I don't much care at the moment. I'm a long time Linux user and am not so happy about all this 'no root gui login paranoia' stuff. Having a root login has taught me so much. It really urks me when someone says I shouldn't log in as root. But that's another story :0
Gonna go play now- ehh I haven't tried watching video online yet- I'll let you know (fingers crossed).
Best wishes,
xetaprime
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/01/2010 06:27AM by xetaprime.