Just curious..How do I go about doing that in RedHat 7.2
On Sunday 21 April 2002 04:50 pm, you wrote: > 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
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