Official Slackware packages of KDE 4.1 (and dependencies) are now in the "Testing" directory of Slackware-current. See the changelog for more information, and read on for a quote from Slackware founder, Patrick Volkerding!

Slackware creator/maintainter Patrick Volkerding writes this in the Slackware changelog:


"Added KDE version 4.1 to testing!
Thanks to Robby Workman and Heinz Wiesinger for all the packaging and testing help, and of course to the whole KDE community for helping to bring the Linux desktop to a whole new level of appearance and ease of use. I've installed this on my main email/browsing/general machine and as far as I'm concerned there's just no looking back. It's really a big step forward."


Patrick has included scripts to help upgrade from KDE 3.5.x. Take advantage of the README's and documentation he's included (and notice that this information is for Slackware "current", not Slackware 12.1)

Kudos to Rob Workman for making KDE 4.x available for Slackware for the last few months.

Posted on Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:42:11 +0000 at http://dot.kde.org/2008/08/19/kde-41-slackware-testing