Any idea of reasonable kdiff3 replacement (ubuntu removed kdiff3)

[L. David Baron]

On Wednesday 2008-11-12 23:46 +0100, Marcin Kasperski wrote:
> Unpleasant surprise after I upgraded Ubuntu to 8.10 - kdiff3 is gone
> (as a victim of upgrade to KDE4). I tried compiling it myself and "stable"
> version refuses to compile while svn version crashes while starting (maybe
> some my mistake but I have no idea what to change). 
> So, in short, Ubuntu 8.10 = no kdiff3.
> 
> Mercurial pops up meld which is undocumented (at least with respect to
> 3-way merge) and unintuitive.
> 
> Any suggestions, ideas, hints?

I'd suggest manually downloading and installing the kdiff3 and
libkonq4 packages from Ubuntu 8.04.  (I no longer remember exactly
where I found the files, but I don't think it was hard.)  I did:

 sudo apt-get install kdelibs4c2a
 sudo dpkg -i kdiff3_0.9.92-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb libkonq4_3.5.9-0ubuntu7_amd64.deb

and now kdiff3 works fine for me.

-David

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