KDE Question

[teknogod]

Hello. I had this problem trying to upgrade to KDE2. The problem is that i dont know how to upgrade. I am using RedHat 6 and as you know this dist uses RPM's. So my question is how do i upgrade KDE using RPMs??

[mdwatts]

To be honest with you and this is MY opinion, maybe you should just stick to what you have now and wait until you know enough to be able to upgrade KDE without having too many problems. Upgrading KDE can cause serious problems if not done correctly and then you may end up reinstalling everything. I know the rpm's are at KDE and most likely Redhat's ftp servers along with the upgrade procedures. This is only a suggestion on my part and if you are inclined to do the upgrade then go to those sites.

[cbfunky]

My suggestion:

DO NOT INSTALL KDE2! It is terribly instable and has a lot of bugs. Not as bad as Windows but still it crashes often enough to make you wonder.

It looks ok though, but you're better off without KDE2 (see also my post on "Software related" (KDE2 - big mistake) where I asked how to get rid of it again.

If you want to install it anyways, use

rpm -Uvh *.rpm

in the kde2-package folder.
Dont ask me about the meaning of the -Uvh, I only know that "U" is for Update and "h" is something with "add 50 hashes I-dunno-where".

cbfunky




[This message has been edited by cbfunky (edited 11 January 2001).]

[Baron Flambe]

http://www.kde.org has the rpms. A lot of people seem to have problems with KDE2, but it works OK for me. It is slow though. You need to get rid of KDE1 before installing the new version, otherwise everything goes pear-shaped.

Download the rpms, kdesupport, kdelibs and kdebase are the bare minimum. You also need QT2.2, which should be on the kde.org site along with the kde rpms.

Remove KDE1. rpm -e kdebase should spit out a list of dependencies. rpm -e all the packages depending on kdebase, then remove kdelibs and kdesupport.

Install qt first. Next install the KDE2 rpms. The first three need to be done in this order: kdesupport, kdelibs, kdebase. The others can be installed in any order. Use rpm -Uvh <package> to install them. There you have it!

Doing this using rpm's isn't all that difficult, but you should be prepared for the fact that if you screw something up you might end up having to reinstall everything from scratch. Back up everything important first, as realising that you don't have a backup when your system waves a little white flag *really* hurts!

Good luck!

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