Re: How to upgrade to KDE4
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? Andy -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is it such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to upgrade to KDE4
--- 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: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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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How to upgrade to KDE4
Hi, I'm using FreeBSD 6.2-p11 (yes, I've got to update). A couple days ago I updated my ports tree and went to update kde 3.5.6. At first I did a portupgrade on the KDE meta-port but, ironically, the only thing that updated was the meta-port (I did a portupgrade -r too). I should also say that I first looked in /usr/ports/UPDATING and there weren't any particular instructions (that I could find) for updating KDE. I opened the file in vim and searched for kde and KDE. On both searches, nothing regarding the specific update of 3.5.x to 4.x was mentioned. I'm having some problems updating the kdebase package now (since the meta-port didn't update the whole thing, I'm updating individually to 3.5.10). It's having some compile time issues, something about an identifier not existing in a particular namespace or some-such error, I've got to look into it further. However, since I'm going through this loathsome process anyway, would it be advisable to just do a deinstall of the kde system and cd to /usr/ports/x11/kde (I think that's where it is) and install 4.x (if that's even how to do it)? I would really prefer to run 4.x. Thanks for any help, Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to upgrade to KDE4
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm using FreeBSD 6.2-p11 (yes, I've got to update). A couple days ago I updated my ports tree and went to update kde 3.5.6. At first I did a portupgrade on the KDE meta-port but, ironically, the only thing that updated was the meta-port (I did a portupgrade -r too). I should also say that I first looked in /usr/ports/UPDATING and there weren't any particular instructions (that I could find) for updating KDE. I opened the file in vim and searched for kde and KDE. On both searches, nothing regarding the specific update of 3.5.x to 4.x was mentioned. I'm having some problems updating the kdebase package now (since the meta-port didn't update the whole thing, I'm updating individually to 3.5.10). It's having some compile time issues, something about an identifier not existing in a particular namespace or some-such error, I've got to look into it further. However, since I'm going through this loathsome process anyway, would it be advisable to just do a deinstall of the kde system and cd to /usr/ports/x11/kde (I think that's where it is) and install 4.x (if that's even how to do it)? I would really prefer to run 4.x. Thanks for any help, Andy The Handbook has been recently updated with instructions on installing / running KDE4: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html It is also possible to keep both versions installed (since KDE4 installs in a different directory). If you decide to go along this path, I would advise you to set your PATH so that /usr/local/kde4/bin is before /usr/local/bin (when running KDE4). This will prevent inadvertently running kde3.x executables in 4.x. There has been some discussion on the list concerning the usability of KDE4. FWIW, it worked for me but I am not a KDE person anyway (and have only used 3.X a couple of times) and don't need most of the features of such a desktop. YMMV. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: How to upgrade to KDE4
On Nov 5, 2008 8:24am, Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm using FreeBSD 6.2-p11 (yes, I've got to update). A couple days ago I updated my ports tree and went to update kde 3.5.6. At first I did a portupgrade on the KDE meta-port but, ironically, the only thing that updated was the meta-port (I did a portupgrade -r too). I should also say that I first looked in /usr/ports/UPDATING and there weren't any particular instructions (that I could find) for updating KDE. I opened the file in vim and searched for kde and KDE. On both searches, nothing regarding the specific update of 3.5.x to 4.x was mentioned. I'm having some problems updating the kdebase package now (since the meta-port didn't update the whole thing, I'm updating individually to 3.5.10). It's having some compile time issues, something about an identifier not existing in a particular namespace or some-such error, I've got to look into it further. However, since I'm going through this loathsome process anyway, would it be advisable to just do a deinstall of the kde system and cd to /usr/ports/x11/kde (I think that's where it is) and install 4.x (if that's even how to do it)? I would really prefer to run 4.x. Thanks for any help, Andy The Handbook has been recently updated with instructions on installing / running KDE4: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html It is also possible to keep both versions installed (since KDE4 installs in a different directory). If you decide to go along this path, I would advise you to set your PATH so that /usr/local/kde4/bin is before /usr/local/bin (when running KDE4). This will prevent inadvertently running kde3.x executables in 4.x. There has been some discussion on the list concerning the usability of KDE4. FWIW, it worked for me but I am not a KDE person anyway (and have only used 3.X a couple of times) and don't need most of the features of such a desktop. YMMV. That is fantastic, thanks. Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to upgrade to KDE4
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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
