On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 08:52 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Lamar Owen wrote:
> >>does this exist for CentOS 4 ?
> >
> >
> > Yes, the EL4 repository works fine on CentOS4.
> >
> >
> >>taking a wild swing, I set up /etc/yum.repos/kde-redhat.repo and for
> >>S&G's, I ran the obligatory 'yum update' to see what would happen.
> >
> >
> >>It's an aggressive update to be sure.
> >
> >
> > Yes, it is.
> >
> >
> >>KDE 3.5.0 (and all the dependent stuff such as qt) but also samba and
> >>openoffice.
> >
> >
> >>Is anyone reporting happiness / contentment with their repo enabled and
> >>their updates installed?
> >
> >
> > I use it daily on multiple machines; I have a twin need for the stability
> > of CentOS (update-wise) on one hand, but the features of the later Kstars
> > (part of the 'edutainment' kdeedu package) on the other. Kstars for KDE
> > 3.4 and above has telescope control; see my .sig for why that might be
> > important to me.
> >
> > The 3.5 update didn't really break much. However, you will have
> > difficulty with things that use the kdesu utility, since, at least with
> > the latest updates, su is asking a second question (about the security
> > context) and that hangs kdesu hard
>
> Ack. I'll have to look into that.
>
>
> > KDE 3.5 is slower, unfortunately, so you don't want to do this on an old
> > machine; the machine needs to be recent and needs to have more than 256MB
> > RAM for sure. On one machine, going from 256MB to 512MB doubled its
> > apparent speed; the further increase to 1GB added another 33% or so on
> > some tasks.
>
> Provided ample RAM, I've personally found kde 3.5 to be subjectively
> faster (partly due to pkg optimization tweaking).
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I've been unable to install anything lacking the public key for the
repo.
I tried (from kde-redhat.sourceforge.net)
# rpm -ivh
http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/gpg-pubkey-ff6382fa-3e1ab2ca
Retrieving
http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/gpg-pubkey-ff6382fa-3e1ab2ca
Retrieving http://kde-redhat.sf.net/
error: skipping http://kde-redhat.sf.net/ - transfer failed - Unknown or
unexpected error
and I'm stumped
Craig
