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I used rsync, as mentioned in Eric's blog (see the link in my previous post).
Oops, I missed your post entirely...
Anyway, I copied and pasted the command from that page and got this:
Code:
gene@lemon:~$ rsync -av ?progress rsync://alien.slackbook.org/alien-kde/4.4.4/x86_64
sending incremental file list
rsync: link_stat "/home/gene/?progress" failed: No such file or directory (2)
ERROR: module is read only
rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(866) [receiver=3.0.6]
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (5 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(601) [sender=3.0.7]
So here they are, my packages (32-bit and 64-bit) for Slackware 13.1 that give you KDE SC 4.4.4!
The routine has not changed, and the README explains the simple upgrade process as always. This time, it is even easier because I did not have to update or add any dependencies. The KDE and KDEI packages are all that’s new.
It will vary a little bit depending on which version you go with. I normally create a local mirror with
Anyway, I copied and pasted the command from that page and got this:
Code:
gene@lemon:~$ rsync -av ?progress rsync://alien.slackbook.org/alien-kde/4.4.4/x86_64
sending incremental file list
rsync: link_stat "/home/gene/?progress" failed: No such file or directory (2)
ERROR: module is read only
rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(866) [receiver=3.0.6]
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (5 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(601) [sender=3.0.7]
Actually that turned out to be one of two errors I made... I also failed to copy the dot at the end of the command. Thanks. Anyway, it's downloading now. Once I've got it I'm going to drop into a console to do the install; I've learned the hard way that trying a DE upgrade from within the DE is always a poor idea. So perhaps one of you can tell me... what's the hotkey combo to get into a console in Slack? ctrl-alt-f2 doesn't seem to work on my machine.
as an example of the 4.4.4 32bit packages. There are rsync commands on the blog I believe.
To install the new packages, I usually just drop to runlevel 1, cd to the new x86 directory and upgrade the packages with
Code:
upgradepkg --install-new --reinstall */*.t?z
Be warned that 4.4.85 is NOT READY FOR PRIMETIME. Although it is usable.
Could you expand on that a bit? Is it buggy and crash-prone, or is it just kinda raw? If it's stable I'll probably install it; I want a usable Konqueror again.
I can recommend 4.4.4 with a clear conscience. Although I've experienced no crashes with 4.4.85, it is very raw and buggy, and I can't recommend it to anyone except people that like to run beta/dev software. It is usable and I expect it to be very nice when it's released.
I can recommend 4.4.4 with a clear conscience. Although I've experienced no crashes with 4.4.85, it is very raw and buggy, and I can't recommend it to anyone except people that like to run beta/dev software. It is usable and I expect it to be very nice when it's released.
I've already got 4.4.4. I'm thinking about upgrading to 4.4.85 because I'm sick of Firefox. If it's still buggy I'll probably skip it.
Same problems that have existed with Konq for awhile... it's got problems rendering a a lot of modern web content. I'm hardly alone in this; it's a fairly hot topic on the KDE forums. Apparently the problems have largely been fixed in the Konq that will ship with KDE 4.5. I want it!
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