Re: How can I upgrade from KDE 3.3 to new KDE 3.4.x?

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Mandrake or now Mandriva (whichever it is now) is a great distro for users who rather not see the $ prompt or even less the # prompt.

When I used mandrake 10.1 it came with both a grapical point-and-click installer and a graphical package manager. Two of them actually, one was rpmdrake and the other kpackage.
rpmdrake was a nice front-end to the mandr/ake/iva package manager, urpmi.

Bob, I don't know if this intrests you, but it may be worth a shot. Also take note at the huge level of support that comes from deploying such a widely used distro like Mandy.

Good Luck!

On 11/6/05, Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sunday, 6 November 2005 22:03, Philip Rodrigues wrote:
> Hi Bob/Mike,
>
> > Well I use linux for few years now and I like to ask
> > you,what should I do to upgrade KDE.
> > I don`t use some kind of shell or terminal program and
> > is it possible that you can explain me how to upgrade
> > KDE kerne with out screw up anything.
> > Please could you help me out?
>
> The answer to this question depends on what Linux/UNIX distribution you're
> using. You should probably ask in a forum which is specific to that
> distribution. There might be people on this list who use the same
> distribution as you and can help you, but you'll have to give us some more
> details first.
>
> Regards,
> Philip

On most distribution I'd say that's a risky business. If oyu really like to
keep on the bleeding edge you could take a look at Gentoo - the portage
system does this very well.

However, if "I don't use some kind of shell or terminal" means you don't like
working at the command line, Gentoo certainly is not for you :)

KDE has *lots* of dependencies and most frequently, upgrading to a new version
breaks lots of things, so you'd better wait for your favorite distro to have
a new release with 3.4.x and do a fresh installation.

Thierry


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