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I haven't personally updated kde3.3 on SuSE Pro, but a friend of mine did... He had to download about 10 to 20 packages and had to install some of them about three times untill he could get kde working. The easiest way is to download all stuff directly from here... IIRC it's a bit messy bout the deps
To your kernel problem:
In general you should only have to download the kernel sources from here (30MB) or as you are using SuSE, just use YOU; gcc and make should be avaiable from your CD/DVD.
I'm running KDE 3.3 on SuSE 9.1 Professional. Best KDE ever...
IMO the best way to upgrade is to use apt4rpm/Synaptic. Just be careful about the gnome, usr-local-bin, suse-people, KOTD, and kde-unstable sections. They can get you into trouble if you aren't careful. gnome has an incomplete Gnome 2.6, and usr-local-bin has Gnome 2.8. You might also want to disable suser-gbv. He does good work, but includes later versions of GTK and some other stuff that breaks some stuff and/or requires cascading upgrades.
i actually did upgrade my suse 9.1 professional from kde3.2 to 3.3 by hand.
and yes, there were also a lot of dependencies to resolve... i prefer to have a quite complete set of packages and therefore, there were an additional number of packages to download just because of the dependencies.
so, after playing around for a while, downloading this and deleting that, i ended up with approximately 50-60 packages before i could finally do a clean upgrade.
Originally posted by kastorff I'm running KDE 3.3 on SuSE 9.1 Professional. Best KDE ever...
IMO the best way to upgrade is to use apt4rpm/Synaptic. Just be careful about the gnome, usr-local-bin, suse-people, KOTD, and kde-unstable sections. They can get you into trouble if you aren't careful. gnome has an incomplete Gnome 2.6, and usr-local-bin has Gnome 2.8. You might also want to disable suser-gbv. He does good work, but includes later versions of GTK and some other stuff that breaks some stuff and/or requires cascading upgrades.
Keith, you've convinced me this is the way to upgrade to kde 3.3. Here is my /etc/apt/sources.list. How does it look, do I need to add any sources? Can you give us a few pointers on commands to use? Is it as simple as 'apt-get install kde' ?? Do we need to get a package list from somewhere? Thanks!
EDIT: Disregard, I ran the dist-upgrade with this sources.list and it went fine. If you follow this procedure, be sure to do an 'apt-get update' first. The only problem I had was that I had to uninstal kaffeine because of a conflict, but it was easily reinstalled using YAST and Packman source.
Just check the SuSE forum at linuxiso.org (sticky) on how to add updaate sources. Worked like a charm and I really care for the changes. It seems stable now and has seemed so for a week. 9.1 PRO
You can also check forums.suselinuxsupport.de , they have a bunch of posts on how to update to KDE 3.3, and faq's about apt-get, etc. If you're going to use apt-get, make sure to add the proper sources as mentioned above, and then I would use synaptic (it's a gui version of apt-get). I actually used a how-to from that forum to update mine.
I've got some stuff active I warn about, so be sure to make the changes. It's a pretty good start though. Install Synaptic and it will give you a GTK GUI for apt4rpm. That's what I use.
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