Just upgraded an arch box I've not done any upgrades on for over 12/12 (didn't even had /etc/pacman.d/ directories, not sure when they changed. Had one problem - gcc-libs had to be manually upgraded, because x wouldn't start and was missing a file I think called libgcc_s.so.1. However after that everything seems to work fine, though unfamiliar format cf kde3.5 Regards Richar > On Wednesday 30 July 2008 22:14, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > > David Rosenstrauch wrote: > > > If you want to stay with KDE3 short term, this forum thread tells you > > > how. (i.e., add a bunch of Ignore's to your pacman.conf.) > > > > Whoop! Forgot to paste the thread URL: > > > > http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=52416 > > > > DR > > Thanks David. I was going to ask about that, but got distracted in replying > to someone on another list. > > Nigel. > > Btw. thanks for your initial reply. I may let the upgrade to KDE4 procede > on this machine, and see how it goes. I do have another instance of Don't > Panic on another machine, and may well try to keep that running KDE3.5. > > Apt-get on my Fedora, and Debian based installs tells you how many packages > are going to be upgraded. Pacman doesn't do that, and I havn't counted > them, but there must be, in just scanning through the list about 120. Just > how many are deps for the transition from KDE3.5 to KDE4, I've no idea. > > As I say, I'll probably let the transition from KDE3.5 to KDE4 procede on > the new machine, and see what the new KDE4 looks like, and whether it > performs as expected.
