Hello,

I've installed slack 9.1 without KDE as I am looking to put the latest versions on. However, I am not sure what the best way to do this is. There doesn't seem to be an 'official' set of .tgz KDE binary's around, so I downloaded the .tar.bz files which are languishing in a directory on my PC.

However, I am not sure how to user swaret to install these pacages. I have downloaded it and run swaret --update. How do i get it to install KDE 3.2.2. It just doesnt seem to 'do' anything - even upgrading existing software. I have renamde and slightly modified the swaret.conf file.

Is there a way to install the KDE binarys using swaret and how do I do it?


DO I have to put them in a repository or something.

I'm not used to slack yet for sure. I was hoping it was going to be fairly easy to install KDE 3.2.2

Help much appreciated!

As far as I know, Swaret only installs pre-made Slackware packages. If you want to upgrade to something newer than Slackware current (9.1 ATM) you have to compile and install yourself.

The problem is that if you do that, you can't use Swaret or PKGTOOL to upgrade them.

What you want to do is download and compile the version of KDE that you want but follow one of the many Slackware Package Creation Guides on the net and make a Slackware package and use PKGTOOL to install it.

You might also ckeck www.LinuxPackages.net and see if someone hasn't already done the work for you.

Try changing the version number in swaret.conf from 9.1 to current the issue swaret --update (to update the package lists) and then issue swaret --upgrade kde.

You will have to check that your swaret.conf does dependency checking, or it may miss something.