Upgrading to KDE 2.x

[shadowmanresto]

I'm running RedHat 7.0 with KDE 1.1.2 and would like to upgrade to the latest stable version of KDE. How do I go about that? Do I have to uninstall the version I have now before going to the new version? Can I just download the sources and it will update all of the neccesary files?

Thanks,
/shadowmanresto/rooted/at/home ;)

[Subhankar Chatterjee]

I just did that!!!.I downloaded the rpm packages and unpacked the packages as root and that just did fine. :)
As:
rpm -Uvh --force ........
--force had to be used to make sure the package compiles even if error messages occur.(I was running Redhat 6.2 then).

[shadowmanresto]

So, basically I just download the packages with the same names as the ones already installed, right? I can go into kpackage and look at the names of the packages already installed and download them, right?

Thanks for your input,

/shadowmanresto/rooted/at/home
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[bdg1983]

I always find reading the install instructions at www.kde.org (http://www.kde.org) to be helpful. ;)

Seriously though. I think most that have done the upgrade would have started with kde's site and then checked their distros website for anything specific.