Excellent Dave, I have actually been delving into shell scripting so this should be a cool exercise for me. Believe it or not I understand all of what you wrote. I suspect you are right about what I will need. With any luck I'll have KDE 3.1 up in no time. Must do a backup of all my stuff first. This shouldn't be a big deal as I just did it not too long ago and I've managed to keep things pretty tidy on my system since.
Any pitfalls I should be aware of? I imagine that the folks at SuSE who've aided in this development have done a decent job of making the RPM's. I'll keep my fingers crossed nonetheless. This is my first foray into upgrading versus reinstalling. As none of the distros will have this just yet, I don't have much of a choice. Should be a good learning experience. Jarrod ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 11:51 AM Subject: Re: (clug-talk) KDE 3.1 > > Jarrod Major wrote: > > Kewl, so now I just have to figure out what I need to upgrade. I know that > > there's a pile of them that don't apply. Is there an easy way to tell what > > you have versus what you want or need? I realize this is a nebulous > > question. Forgive my ignorance. > > to find out what you need to update, try this: > > for i in `rpm -qa`; do > rpm -qr $i | grep -q kde && echo $i > done > > this script queries every installed rpm for its dependencies, and prints > all the packages that are dependent on kde. > > its likely you'll need to upgrade a good portion of the packages listed, > plus the core ones like kdebase. > > Dave > >
