The difference between SUSE and RedHat 4 KDE2.0

[thor4linux]

Hello All,

I recently bought a German Linux Magazine that came with a free CD that has Red Hat 7.0 and KDE 2.0 on it. I tried RH and didn't like it as much as Mandrake. I want to install KDE 2.0 on my Mandrake system. The instructions that come with the CD are in German. i can read a little German and there are instructions for installing KDE 2.0 for SUSE and RedHat. For SUSE the insructions say i can run both 1.x and 2.0. for RedHat it says i have to uninstall 1.x. before i install 2.0. But i can't read enough German to understand why. Does anyone know why i have to uninstall 1.x on RedHat(which is of course what Drake is based on) and not on SUSE. Also does anyone use SUSE? Is it worth trying?
Also. how do i uninstall 1.x while i have it up and running? i don't have any other Eviro's installed. i would assume i kill the xserver and uninstall it from the comand line. but i don't know how to kill X, without restarting the system.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Thor

[NGene]

All I know is that SuSE and RH puts KDE files into different places, SuSE puts them into /opt and RH... well, don't remember because it's so long time since I've used RH but as far as I remember, it wasn't /opt. Maybe it has something to do with this, well, hopefully someone knows better.

You can't kill your X server? So you mean when you exit KDE, you'll get back to login screen (xdm, I guess)? So does your system boot directly to X? If so, you can get rid of the login screen by logging as root into some of the virtual consoles and changing the runlevel with command telinit 3 which should shut xdm. Then you can uninstall KDE 1, install KDE 2 and switch back to the original runlevel with telinit 5

You really don't have any other window manager installed than KDE?? If you do, you can switch to that window manager and use some graphical tool to uninstall KDE.

I use SuSE and think it's one of the best distros. It's definitely worth of trying. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

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