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That's not the same as Rex Dieter's packages, is it?
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/2013-March/012437.html

-Ben

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 08:03:20PM +0200, Sergio Ballestrero wrote:
>  Hello Konstantin,
> you can get newer versions from http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/ , basically they rebuild from the latest Fedora - last I mirrored they were at 4.10. But  it's a small project and releases are sparse, which is not good for security in the long term. 
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> For our systems we are looking into rebuilding on SL(C)6 the KDE-4.10 that will be in TUV 7, so as to have a reliable source for long-term support. For now we're starting with rebuilding the KDE 4.10 from FC19.
> Feel free to mail me off-list if you could be interested to share this project.
> 
> Cheers,
>   Sergio
> 
> -- 
>  Sergio Ballestrero  - ATLAS TDAQ sysadmin team @CERN
>  University of Johannesburg, Physics Department
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> On 17 Oct 2013, at 19:05, Konstantin Olchanski <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > Hi, there.
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> > It looks like the stock SL6 KDE konqueror web browser does not work for many modern web applications
> > because of an insufficient javascript implementation.
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> > Sure enough, SL6 seems to arrive with KDE 4.3 which was released in 2009.
> > 
> > Does anybody know how to graft a newer KDE into SL6? (Actually, just a newer konqueror would be enough)
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> > KDE are up to 4.11.2 now...
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> > P.S. Why konqueror? It is the only browser that still can run multiple copies of itself.
> > Unlike firefox and google-chrome who refuse to start with an error
> > "this application is already running on computer X" when I sit in front
> > of computer Y and need to google something. (Computer X is in a different
> > building and I am google something there *too*) (NIS+NFS cluster).
> > 
> > -- 
> > Konstantin Olchanski
> > Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow!
> > Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca
> > Snail mail: 4004 Wesbrook Mall, TRIUMF, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A3, Canada
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