[solved]is it possible to get pclos kde 4.6

[houndhen]

I had a perfectly good and stable pclos kde 4.6.? 32 bit desktop install; but nnooo that was not good enough for me. I saw a write up about upgrading to kde 4.8.?.

So I did it and then it seemed that things weren't as stable. So I downloaded the new iso the was 4.8.?. I installed and updated it but it seems to be more unstable than the 4.6.? that I had upgraded to 4.8.?.

Has anyone else had similiar problems?

Is it possible to download the kde 4.6.? version again so that I could re-install?

Thanks,
Harold

[CaptainSarcastic]

I upgraded just fine - no problems here.

When you say it is "unstable" could you give some examples?  It is hard to try to troubleshoot without having more details about the behavior you are seeing.

Considering that the repos have been updated to KDE 4.8.x it seems likely that any running of 4.6.x is going to end up causing problems of its own.

[YouCanToo]

You could download an older iso say 2012.2 http://archives.pclosusers.com/isos/ and install it, but you won't be able to do any updates if you do.

[taelti]

You could download an older iso say 2012.2 http://archives.pclosusers.com/isos/ and install it, but you won't be able to do any updates if you do.

Wait!

Following issues with bluetooth after a clean install of 2012.8, I, for the fun of it, made a clean install of the 2012.2. This was yesterday. And then I upgraded only the installed packages as usual. I wanted to see what will happen.

The update went on smoothly, with no issues at all and then I removed and added a few other programs as well.

I expected to see a non functioning system so imagine my surprise when all went well.

It is still kde 4.6.5 with kernel 2.6.38.8-pclos3.bfs (when I check the Kinfocenter) and its fully updated!

To preserve it, I immediately made a remaster! lol.

I had earlier also made a remaster of 2012.8 with kde 4.8 before I removed it. So I have 2 remasters.

Since all is strangely well, I guess I will stay will 4.6.5 for now......lol.

If it is not broken, do not fix it.

[pinoc]

such an 'update' is not updated but simply a stale KDE4.6.5 installation.

Should you have any hardware-related problems with the newer 2012.08 KDE then they are most likely related to the newer kernel used in 2012.08. In that case you could simply install the older 2.6.38 kernel in addition to the new one, boot into the older kernel and things are back to before.

KDE4.6.5 is no longer supported because it has been replace with KDE 4.8.x

[houndhen]

Thanks everyone for the input. Figured I would need some examples of what goes wrong. I will just live with what I have and try to figure out what problems exist. One day I will learn to leave wellenough alone. I will start a new post when/if I have specifics.