On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 07:41 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote: > On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 20:59 -0500, RDB wrote: > > On Tuesday 03 February 2009 20:05:13 Linuxguy123 wrote: > > > On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 17:09 -0500, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > > > > So if I want to try KDE 4.2 on F10 how should I do it ? Which repository > > > > should I use ? Is the info in KDE-Redhat page still correct, or will this > > > > in some Fedora testing repository ? > > > > > > If you just want to test it or play around a bit, I would download the > > > latest informal "Rex" release and make it bootable on a USB mass storage > > > device. If it isn't released as stable, I wouldn't enable a testing > > > repository on a production computer. > > > > Thanks, but that's not what I meant. I want to install it to my home machine, > > and willing to use beta software to help testing it out. So is it on Fedora > > testing repository ? How do install just KDE from the testing ? > > I believe that if you enable the F10 testing repository and then do a > yum update, everything will install automagically. The new packages > will have higher version numbers and later dates and yum will install > them on your machine. > > If you get lucky, when its fully released, you can remove the testing > repository and over time the stable packages will take over and you > might have a totally stable machine. > > Someone correct me if I am wrong. Yes and no. If you just blindly do a "yum update" with updates-testing enabled, you'll get testing versions of everything you have installed, which may or may not be good. My usual practice is to do "yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update <package>" which presumably lessens the risk somewhat. poc
