Re: KDE 4.1 on Fedora 10

["Paulo Cavalcanti" <promac@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Anne Wilson <annew@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sunday 21 December 2008 19:38:28 Alain Roger wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Anne Wilson <annew@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sunday 21 December 2008 19:05:32 Alain Roger wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > i'm new to fedora 10 and i got the full version (with Gnome
> > > environment). as former Mandrake and KDE user, i would be glad to know
> > > how can i
> >
> > install
> >
> > > KDE 4.1 on this version ?
> > > i do not want to download the Fedora 10 live with KDE already
> >
> > installed...
> >
> > > :-)
> > >
> > > thanks a lot,
> >
> > You're right - you don't need to download the live edition.  I've never
> > done
> > it at this point (I always install kde from the start), but the command
> > you need (from a root terminal, of course) is something like
> >
> > yum groupinstall kde
> >
> > or maybe
> > yum groupinstall kde-desktop
> >
> > If you prefer to do it from a GUI, on the kickoff menu, type 'software'
> > in the
> > searchbar and you will find Add/Remove Software.  There you'll see the
> > group
> > 'KDE desktop'
> >
> > Anne
> >
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> Hi Anne,
>
> I tried the GUI andto run the Add/remove software but it did not work well
> after internet failure :-(
> for Fedora 10, only the following command worked well : yum groupinstall
> "KDE (K Desktop Environment)"
>
> so thanks for your help.
>
> by the way, Anne is quite a french name :-) so what is the trend in France
> for Fedora Desktop Environment ?
>

It's been an English name for a very long time, too :-)  Sorry - I don't know
anything about French trends - and not much about English ones, for that
matter.

Well, kde 4.1 is pretty usable. Unfortunately, I can not say the same thing
about gnome 2.24, which is not even capable of saving the current session ...

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