Cheers Brian, that's sorted.  

I now want to upgrade to KDE3. Can i keep KDE 2 though at the same time 
as it seems like there's still a few bugs, or will it overwirte KDE2 when 
i insatll it?

Cheers everyone

Matt

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On 22/04/02, 00:38:16, Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote 
regarding Re: [newbie] Updates:


> Matt,

> I assume you are dual booting, so the easiest way is to download to a
> fat32 partition the RPM's.  Now boot linux, and find /mnt/windows or
> whatever the fat32 partition is mounted as.  From there (as root) you
> can:

> rpm -Uvh rpm-file-name

> for updates.  Don't do that for a new kernel though!  For that it's:

> rpm -ivh kernelxxxxx

> HTH
> Brian

> On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 09:26, Matt Blake wrote:
> > I  want to download the updates for 8.2, but due to a winmodem need to do
> > it through windows.  Is it better to download the RPM's or SRPM's?  How
> > do i then install the updates?
> >
> > Cheers
> > Matt
> >
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