On Sunday 21 Apr 2002 8:23 pm, Jesse Angell wrote: > Is KDE3 included in mandrake 8.2.. If not, how hard is it to upgrade > it..
It's not. But it turns out to be straightforward to upgrade thanks to a little bit of magic from Mandrake (the urpmi command): i. Go to a download location for the Mandrake packages via: http://download.kde.org/stable/3.0/Mandrake/ then the 8.2/RPMS/i586 directory on the server you're automatically directed to. ii. Download _every_ package there - I think there are currently thirty-four of them - to a directory. Don't pick and choose the packages; the next step may not work if you do so. iii. Go to a shell, log in as root (su then <root password>) then do: cd <the folder you downloaded everything to> urpmi.addmedia kde3 file://<full pathname of that folder> [1] urpmi * And, after about 10 minutes, KDE3 will be installed. Log out of KDE2 (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace) and log back in again, picking 'KDE3' from the drop-down list of window managers on the login screen. That's all. Alastair [1] for example, I put the files in /home/alastair/kde3 so the commands would be cd /home/alastair/kde3 urpmi.addmedia kde3 file:///home/alastair/kde3 -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/
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