--- On Fri, 11/7/08, Andrew Falanga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Andrew Falanga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: How to upgrade to KDE4
> To: "RW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Date: Friday, November 7, 2008, 9:49 AM
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:26 PM, RW
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:52:06 -0800
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > the only
> >> thing that updated was the meta-port (I did a
> portupgrade -r too).
> >
> > Aside from the fact that there are separate kde
> meta-ports,
> > portupgrade -r kde... updates the metaport and
> everything that depends
> > on the metaport, not everything the metaport depends
> on.
>
> Thanks for the clarification. I think I had things
> backwards.
>
> Also, as I'd like to go to KDE 4, should I do a make
> deinstall in
> kdebase, or perhaps pkg_delete for the kde packages before
> installing?
> I know that the first respondent said the two versions
> could be run
> in tandem, and while I've got plenty of disk space for
> this, it also
> seems quite error prone. What would be the recommended
> course?
KDE3 and KDE4 co-habitate just fine. You'll likely need KDE3 installed for
some apps which don't use KDE4 libs yet. I am pretty sure ktorrent is what
installed kde3 on my system when I upgraded recently. There are plenty of
others, though. KDE4 installs under /usr/local/kde4, while KDE3 installs under
/usr/local at this time (assuming you haven't changed port bases yourself.)
Because of this, you'll likely want to remember to add
/usr/local/kde4/{bin,sbin} to your shell search paths, and remember to use kdm
from KDE4 as your login manager (this tricked me at first, and I was wondering
for a bit why I was still getting a KDE3 login manager until I realized that
KDE4 went under /usr/local/kde4/). I would not say that it is error prone at
all. Everything has, so far, worked out of the box just fine save a couple of
KDE4 bugs I've tweaked, none of which are bad enough to prevent me from working
normally in KDE4 or to make me want to dump KDE4.
- mdh
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