How to upgarade KDE 3.1.4 to 3.2.0

Ninja_212 · 02-11-2004, 10:23 PM

I'm trying to upgrade my KDE but i don't know how. Do i need to upgrade Qt too.. did someone ever done this before... Thank's

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SailingGypsy · 02-11-2004, 10:29 PM

Yes you neet Qt and arts also.

You can use something like Swaret to update it.

With Swaret, you can upgrade the whole system if you want also. Just take your time reading the HOW-TO that comes with it (has all the commans and how/when to use them) and configuring the swaret.config file. Afterwards is very easy. (there are a couple other apps to update but I have only used Swaret so can only talk of that one)

HTH

Regards...

Wynd · 02-11-2004, 10:50 PM

Easy, just find a Slackware mirror (there are tons, just search for something like "kde slackware-current .tgz" on Google), download all the packages you want from the kde directory, and do 'upgradepkg *.tgz' in the directory you downloaded them to. Boom, KDE 3.2

Ninja_212 · 02-11-2004, 11:12 PM

Thank's bro i'll search it rigt away....

Rylinkus · 02-14-2004, 11:16 PM

Make sure to grab the qt and arts packages as well. Though most servers will have absolutely everything you need.

amos · 02-15-2004, 11:51 AM

Does that work whilst I'm running kde or do i have to log out to single user mode (runlevel 1?) ?

Cheers
Amos

Wynd · 02-15-2004, 01:38 PM

It should work while KDE is running, but you'll probably have to log out and log in again for it to take effect.

amos · 02-17-2004, 11:55 AM

Just to be on the safe side, I did

init 3

and did the upgradepkg *.tgz there. As you said before Wynd BOOM, I have KDE 3.2 (with a slight delay of about 24 hours while I downloaded the required packages on a dialup connection which automatically hangs up every 2 hours).

And now Robert is most definitely my mother's brother.

Thanks all.

Cheers
Amos

schurt · 02-17-2004, 12:23 PM

there is actually a contrib link on the kde.org webpage where you can download slack contributed packages for latest kde, thats how i updated mine anyways

i need to try out this swaret program though are there a lot of up to date packages listed in the repositories? i know when i used apt4rpm on redhat the packages were rather limited.

Wynd · 02-17-2004, 12:27 PM

Glad it worked

Swaret downloads stuff from Slackware mirrors, so you can just change the version in the config file and it will point to whatever that is (I have mine set to "current"), and everything on the mirrors will be available.