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List:       kde-linux
Subject:    Re: [kde-linux] Upgrade question
From:       Wendell Thompson <wthompson () dsg-test ! com>
Date:       2002-01-28 16:44:34
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The best way to upgrade to KDE 2.2.2 is to use YAST. Select "install 
packages" and select the "supplementary/KDE" directories on ftp.suse.com 
as the source. Install the base directory first, then the applications 
and development directories if desired.

This will get all the pieces and avoid the package conflict problems 
that occur if you download and install using rpm.

Terry wrote:

> I would totally agree that using Yast is not perfect, only that it 
> might be a better chance.  The only sure way to get either KDE or GNOME 
> (or any other WM) to work very well is to install an entire 
> distribution that has the WM you want to use.  After all, that's what 
> we pay them the "big bucks" for - to integrate all of the world's 
> collection of packages into something that is useful.  And it's well 
> worth it!
> 
> This was probably the last time that I will attempt to upgrade a 
> component in a distro, just to be "current".  You have to have a lot of 
> extra time or an extream need to go through a process for which there 
> is little support or documentation.  Compiling from source is even a 
> more extreame measure that really requires significant need - not just 
> idle curosity about what one is missing by not having the latest....
> 
> 
> 
>>> Yast does not always do this correctly.  I had several old parts
>>> of KDE 2.2.1 still running after suse had more recient versions on
>>> their site.  Generally, unless there is a security concern, simple
>>> upgrades will not find their way into yast updates.
>>>
> 


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