KDiff3 on Intrepid Ibex

One thing, that I sorely missed on Intrepid Ibex (aka Ubuntu 8.10), was KDiff3. It got dropped in favor of Kompare. Though Kompare might have a GUI that looks a lot more polished, KDiff3 is a lot more usable. What I really, really missed, was the ability to just reload the currently loaded files. If one is constantly checking the same files, e.g., output generated from an application, it is quite handy to just reload them. In Kompare, you can only reopen them, in a separate window.

Anyway, by accident, I came across this comment, explaining how to get KDiff3 installed on Intrepid for the i386 platform. Since I’m running the amd64 version of Intrepid, I’ve put those commands together as well:

  • i386
      sudo apt-get install kdelibs4c2a
    wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10679965/kdiff3_0.9.92-2ubuntu1_i386.deb
    wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13473685/libkonq4_3.5.9-0ubuntu7_i386.deb
    wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10679966/kdiff3-doc_0.9.92-2ubuntu1_all.deb
    sudo dpkg -i *.deb
    
  • amd64
      sudo apt-get install kdelibs4c2a
    wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10681406/kdiff3_0.9.92-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb
    wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13473513/libkonq4_3.5.9-0ubuntu7_amd64.deb
    wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10679966/kdiff3-doc_0.9.92-2ubuntu1_all.deb
    sudo dpkg -i *.deb