Derek Jennings wrote:
On Thursday 03 March 2005 20:33, Phlod wrote:
Hello everyone. This is my first posting to this list, and I'm quite
pleased that this list exsists at all. Thanks for taking the time to
read this.
After searching through the list archive, I couldn't find an answer to
my question, so I thought I'd ask here. Please excuse me if this has
been answered already.
Anyway, what I want to know is, how much of a pain is upgrading to KDE
3.3, and what the best/most painless way to go about it? I have the
thracs.rpms repository added. Is it really as simple as 'init 3', and
'urpmi kdebase-3.3.3-20'?? I've also heard people suggest adding the
cooker repository and upgrading that way, but I'm rather leery of doing
that, since I don't *really* want to run an unstable distro, no matter
how stable it actually is.
Also, if I do the kdebase upgrade, and still have older parts of KDE
installed (Kopete, amaroK, etc.), will it blow up, or just run them
until I upgrade those parts too?
Sorry about multiple questions here, but I'm trying to avoid having to
re-install, (which would be my kneejerk reaction if the KDE upgrade
doesn't work).
--Phlod
Actually you do not even need the 'init 3' You can upgrade KDE while you are
running it. Just do not try opening any new applications while you are
halfway through the upgrade.
Do NOT add Cooker repository unless you want to upgrade your entire system to
Cooker. Even though you only want to install KDE you will find 100's of other
packages will get pulled in as dependencies.
As soon as you upgrade kdebase with urpmi, any other application which depends
on kdebase will also get upgraded. That means most KDE apps.
And of course if you screw it all up you will still be able to log in with a
different Window Manager.
derek
Derek, you are, as of now, my personal saviour. ;) Thank you for
answering the questions even Google was unable to shed much light upon,
and, for pointing out what should have been obvious to me in the first
place; I can just use another WM if the KDE upgrade goes south. Wow,
running Windows for so many years has really got my brain fixated on
just one desktop, and if that goes to hell, it's time to reinstall.
Gotta break out of that way of thinking.
Thanks again.
--Phlod
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