On Saturday 01 Jan 2005 20:33, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Saturday 01 January 2005 10:25 am, Keith Powell wrote: > > > > In Mandrake 10.1 Official, I am trying to upgrade KDE to KDE3.3 > > which is on disk4 of the Download Edition. But my attempts have > > been a complete failure. > > > > So, PLEASE someone, in plain language, how does one install > > KDE3.3 from disk4? I don't need to keep KDE3.2. >>>>>SNIP<<<<< > > Here's how I did it (then). I put in CD4 and cd'd to the > KDE3.3 directory. There I ran 'rpm -Fvh *.rpm' which returned > some missing dependencies. Mostly libjack* IIRC. I already had > online 10.1 sources set up, so I used those to get the deps. You > might be able to use your CD sources. > > That upgraded KDE packages I already had from the many from > the 10.1 CD install. (which is what 'rpm -Fvh' does, see 'man > rpm'). After the upgrade was finished, I ran 'upall' as root; > [ alias upall='rpm --rebuilddb && updatedb && ldconfig -v && > update-menus -v -n' ] > > Then logged out, back into KDE, using Ctrl+Alt+Bsp to re-start > the X server while I was logged out. If you are setup to auto > login to your desktop, this will bypass the login next step. > > For my experience and opinion: _Don't do it_! If you really > want KDE3.3, setup cooker sources and use urpmi to update to KDE > 3.3.2, (complete cooker 10.2) You'll be better off. KDE3.3.1 > shipped with 10.1 is alpha an buggy quality, IME. Cooker is > currently stable. Do it NOW while cooker is slow for the holidays
Thanks for your reply and the help. I appreciate it. I now know two good ways of doing the upgrade, yours and Jo's. Thanks also for the warning about the buggy quality of the packages on the CD. I must think about what to do. Cheers Keith
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