Very helpful. Thanks, James. JOB On 9-Mar-2004 22:54:38 +0100, you wrote: > Job 317 wrote: > > On 8-Mar-2004 02:24:31 +0100, you wrote: > > > >>Job 317 wrote: > >> > >>>Alles, > >>> > >>>I am very pleased with KDE3.2 on ReHat 9 and would like to move > > > > it's > > > >>>location to a permanent location on my system. > >>> > >>>Currently it resides in /root/kde3.2 and I have updated my .bashrc > > > > with > > > >>>the environment variables pointing to this location as directed in > > > > the > > > >>>3.2 documentation. > >>> > >>>Rather than go through a complete rebuild can I simply move > > > > everything > > > >>>over and replace my system's KDE 3.1.4 install? I really hate > > > > wasting > > > >>>the space on my HD even though I seem to have plenty. Plus I don't > >>>intend to use the 3.1.4 stuff anymore anyway. > >> > >>No, you can't just move the stuff. You need to reconfigure your > > > > source > > > >>tree with the prefix you want (either "/usr" or "/usr/kde3" would be > >>appropriate on a RedHat system) and rebuild and reinstall.. > >> > > > > > > O.K. I'm using konstruct. Is that o.k.? > > > > > > > >>However, this will not recompile anything, it will just relink for the > > > > new > > > >>prefix and it won't take nearly as long. > >> > >>Also, you will probably want to uninstall 3.1.4 first. > > > > > > O.K. Why? As long as I don't rely on any future rpm updates (RH9 support > > is ending soon anyway) won't the new build/configuration just wrote over > > the old stuff? > > No, some of the old stuff will be older versions of libraries. This > probably wouldn't matter if you uninstall of the 'devel' packages. But, it > can cause problems to have old stuff still on your system. > > > > Also, How? Just 'rpm -e kde*' ? > > You can do that, but you need to use the option: "--allmatches": > > rpm -e kde* --allmatches > > This is considered somewhat risky. You can also get a list of the packages > with: > > rpm -qa |grep kde > > and uninstall them individually with: "--nodeps". > > -- > JRT > ___________________________________________________ > . > Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. >
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