update KDE in Suse9.1

John_Emad · 03-07-2005, 06:30 AM

I have Suse9.1 with KDE 3.2.1

I want to update the KDE but actually I dont know how to do it

Best Regards

abisko00 · 03-07-2005, 07:29 AM

Have a look here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...21#post1302321

youngtom · 03-07-2005, 07:41 AM

Great link there abisko00. I've heard that it is safer if you use another windowmanager/desktop besides KDE to do the update.

abisko00 · 03-07-2005, 07:50 AM

Although I ran the update out of KDE without any problem, you might want to run this from command-line yast. Open a root console and type 'init 3' to change to text mode (or boot after you typed '3' on the grub screen). Login as root and type 'yast'. The menu is not as comfortable as in KDE, but you'll get used to it

John_Emad · 03-07-2005, 08:12 AM

I guess I didnt understand what you mean

what do you mean by not comfortable as YAST ??

also, the link you wrote here, i couldnt find exactly the place from which i can get the KDE

Regards

abisko00 · 03-07-2005, 08:29 AM

Youngtom asked about the installation of the KDE update from another desktop environment than KDE (for safety reasons). The easiest way to do this is from command line. To get into command-line mode, you have to change the runlevel from 5 (graphical UI) to 3 (text-based UI). This is done with the command 'init 3' that has to be executed by root. In a text-based UI, Yast is still functional, however with a ncurses based menu. This looks a little like good old Norton commander in DOS.

The above link shows you how to set up Yast to accept a FTP server as source for updated KDE packages. Depending on the mirror you choose, the directory to be specified changes slightly, but always contains the directory 'supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.1/yast-source'

I hope this helped.

John_Emad · 03-07-2005, 08:33 AM

thanx alot my dear

I will try it and tell you the results