[ale] kde question

[Damon L. Chesser]

I have been googling "kmail Centos 7" and finding no joy.  It looks like 
you can't get the full Kontact suite on CentOS 7.  This is not 
definitive, but Google says no joy.  This information also does not help 
you with your specific issue of EPEL either.

Perhaps what Jim L and Jim K said is correct, perhaps you should try 
Debian/ubuntu or Fedora.  A quick google does report that kmail and/or 
Kontact can be had for all three.

I personally have not had a very good desktop experience with Centos 7, 
the CentOS devs have not caught up with suppling the things I am 
interested in using and I don't really want to compile.  Amazingly, you 
can install the latest desktop drivers from AMD cards right from the AMD 
websites, but there is no steam, just as an example.

I do find both Fedora > 20 and Ubuntu to give a complete desktop, though 
if you want to run ATI/AMD cards, cut to the chase and use Ubuntu, if 
you want to run standard open source vid drivers, it's a toss up.

Not  your solution, but perhaps a re-think of your distro may be in 
order, depending on your needs, of course.

In the past, I have found Kontact to be the single best PIM, sadly, 
since KDE 4, I am not at all interested in KDE.  Evolution was OK, still 
like it, but my favorite is thunderbird, since I am not going to run 
Kontact on a  XFCE destkop, though I could. It just becomes to glaring 
to me with integration to mix gtk and qt.

HTH!



On 02/11/2016 10:15 PM, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> I am trying to run away from Evolution, which is driving me nutz, and
> move back to kde apps, specifically Kontact.
> I have all the usual repos, including epel. rpm forge, and rpm fusion
> (both) but I can not locate the kde set of apps.  Anyone know where I
> should look?
>
> This is a CentOs 7 install.
>
> Sean
>
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