Kde 3.3
 

I was just wondering how people got on upgrading to this version of KDE?

I use SuSE 9.1 Personal, and had to install a lot of dependancies before it would install (from the linux format coverdisc).

My thoughts are that as a lot of the dependencies were -devel, is it just because I am using the personal version?

I have had to download a lot of stuff in order to recompile my kernel (for the philips webcam) including kernel source, and compilers etc.

Were there many dependencies required for the pro users out there?

Hi Iain,

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.

Hope it helps

Greets
G.

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.

http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/

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.

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!

So if i want kde 3.3 i gotta download ALL the packages like all the packages here:
http://mirrors.isc.org/pub/kde/stabl...SuSE/ix86/9.1/


then use apt4 RPM to install it??? is there a step by step on how??

btw whats the diference of:

noarch / ix86 / x86_64 wich one is the one i need?? ix86??

Harryc

You can safely add at least the component kde3-stable.

That way you can very easily upgrade Kde.

Personally I use many more components, wich give me a lot of good apps.

I avoid anything prpm, xorg, kernel-of-the-day, kde-unstable.

However do not use too many components for a dist-upgrade: only: base, update, security, kd3-stable to be on the safe side.

Apt-get install kde won't work in SuSE, because kde is NOT a metapackage as it is in Debian.

With the above components perform a dist-upgrade.

If I have time (I don't have much at the moment) I'll post an howto.

ix86 is fo 32 bits CPUs. x86_64 is for 64 bit CPUs. You most likely need the first.

Thank you, i appreciate your help...i look foward to your how to guide lol

Thanks for the information. So my /etc/apt/sources.list should look like the below just prior to running a dist-upgrade. Please confirm.


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


:p :p
Dan Mac

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.

:D

My apt.conf file: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.