[SOLVED] how to download KDE 4.5.1 from alien ktown

njb · 09-08-2010, 07:01 PM

We can have now the KDE 4.5.1 in place of 4.5.0 in alien's ktown depositories.
I've read the readme file.

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First, change your current directory to where you found this README.
From within this directory, you run the following commands as root.

On Slackware 32-bit:
# upgradepkg --reinstall --install-new x86/deps/*.t?z
# upgradepkg --reinstall --install-new x86/kde/*.t?z

But I have to download first the 4.5.1 directory from
http://alien.slackbook.org/ktown/4.5.1/

And I need the command line to do it.

NjB

damgar · 09-08-2010, 07:45 PM

These packages are in slackware -current as of yesterday.

dc_eros · 09-08-2010, 07:56 PM

Do you really need alien's KDE 4.5.1 because slackware-current already has KDE 4.5.1. Well, you really pursue, you can use wget.

Code:

cd to/where/you/want/to/save
wget -r url-here

But I'm not sure how to make it work in HTTP. I only tried FTP.

njb · 09-08-2010, 08:10 PM

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But I'm not sure how to make it work in HTTP. I only tried FTP

Do you have the FTP URL for alien.slackbook.org and the path for KTOWN ?

;-/ NjB /

damgar · 09-08-2010, 08:13 PM

I use lftp

Code:

lftp -c "open http://alien.slackbook.org/ktown/4.5.1/ ; mirror x86"

for instance would mirror the x86 packages in a folder called x86, wherever you ran the command from, but again these are in Slackware current now.

njb · 09-08-2010, 08:43 PM

Now that the KDE 4.5.1 is in the official FTP site,
Is it possible to download from the official .

:-/ NjB /

damgar · 09-08-2010, 08:47 PM

Yes, http://slackware.mirrors.tds.net/pub...slackware/kde/

The problem will be that you will have to go through and pick out the dependencies. The easiest thing is just to use slackpkg to upgrade to current, which may or may not be something you want to do. The command I gave you above will mirror both kde and deps directories so that you just cd into your x86 (or x86_64) directory that the mirror command generated and AS ROOT IN RUNLEVEL 3 do

Code:

upgradepkg --reinstall --install new */*.t?z

njb · 09-08-2010, 09:09 PM

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The problem will be that you will have to go through and pick out the dependencies.

I don't want to pick one by one all the dependencies.

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The easiest thing is just to use slackpkg to upgrade to current

I am already in current, but I shall check news again with

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# slackpkg update
# slackpkg install-new
# slackpkg upgrade-all

then

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lftp -c "open http://alien.slackbook.org/ktown/4.5.1/ ; mirror x86"

then

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cd into your x86 (or x86_64) directory that the mirror command generated and AS ROOT IN RUNLEVEL 3 do
upgradepkg --reinstall --install new */*.t?z

and I hope it will work ;-)

NjB

damgar · 09-08-2010, 09:12 PM

All you have to do is upgrade current and you will be running kde 4.5.1. If you've been running Eric's other packages though, you probably have KDE blacklisted in /etc/slackpkg/blacklist if you followed directions. That's what happened to me today. I had to remember to go in and un-blacklist the kde packages.

njb · 09-09-2010, 01:05 PM

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All you have to do is upgrade current and you will be running kde 4.5.1.

I have upgraded , it took a long time.
Now I have the KDE 4.5.1 desktop.