How safe is it to install the RPMs for KDE 2.2 while running KDE 2.1.2? The alternatives, I suppose, are to start up some other window manager or to reboot into text mode. Running under the older KDE is certainly easier. Paul
On Wednesday 04 July 2001 13:01, Paul Abrahams wrote:
How safe is it to install the RPMs for KDE 2.2 while running KDE 2.1.2? The alternatives, I suppose, are to start up some other window manager or to reboot into text mode. Running under the older KDE is certainly easier.
Paul
Several alternatives, all involving logging out first.Then: 1) in the login screen select "Login from console" (or similar). or 2) alt+ctrl+f1 login as root type init 3 Then, do the installation and type kdm That's it. Enjoy KDE2.2-beta1 Hope it helps, Alvaro Novo SuSE 7.1 Pro -=- Kernel 2.4.2-4GB -=- KDE 2.2-Beta1 1:07pm up 2 days, 1:25, 2 users, load average: 1.23, 1.14, 1.10
Álvaro A. Novo wrote:
On Wednesday 04 July 2001 13:01, Paul Abrahams wrote:
How safe is it to install the RPMs for KDE 2.2 while running KDE 2.1.2? The alternatives, I suppose, are to start up some other window manager or to reboot into text mode. Running under the older KDE is certainly easier.
Paul
Several alternatives, all involving logging out first.Then:
1) in the login screen select "Login from console" (or similar). or 2) alt+ctrl+f1 login as root type init 3
Then, do the installation and type kdm
That's it. Enjoy KDE2.2-beta1
Hope it helps,
All of those methods involve *not* running under KDE during the installation, right? So then the question comes down to: what's the least inhospitable environment for doing the installation if KDE itself is ruled out. The best I would hope for would be one where I can run Emacs under X, since that gives me both a scrollable shell and nice ways of manipulating directories. Paul
On Wednesday 04 July 2001 13:15, Paul Abrahams wrote:
All of those methods involve *not* running under KDE during the installation, right? So then the question comes down to: what's the least inhospitable environment for doing the installation if KDE itself is ruled out. The best I would hope for would be one where I can run Emacs under X, since that gives me both a scrollable shell and nice ways of manipulating directories.
Paul
Yes, log out from KDE first. But, then you don't need anything fancy to do the installation (i.e. if you are using rpms): cd whererpmsare rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force *.rpm kdm There you go... a simple console will do it... Hope it helps, Alvaro Novo SuSE 7.1 Pro -=- Kernel 2.4.2-4GB -=- KDE 2.2-Beta1 1:17pm up 2 days, 1:34, 1 user, load average: 1.25, 1.14, 1.10
Álvaro A. Novo wrote:
On Wednesday 04 July 2001 13:15, Paul Abrahams wrote:
All of those methods involve *not* running under KDE during the installation, right? So then the question comes down to: what's the least inhospitable environment for doing the installation if KDE itself is ruled out. The best I would hope for would be one where I can run Emacs under X, since that gives me both a scrollable shell and nice ways of manipulating directories.
Paul
Yes, log out from KDE first. But, then you don't need anything fancy to do the installation (i.e. if you are using rpms):
cd whererpmsare rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force *.rpm kdm
There you go... a simple console will do it...
That's under the optimistic assumption that nothing goes wrong. Looks like the best bet is to log out, log in again under fvwm2, and then start up Emacs there. At the same time I can rename my .kde2 directory so that KDE 2.2 will create a new one without the old one being lost. Paul
Álvaro A. Novo wrote:
On Wednesday 04 July 2001 13:15, Paul Abrahams wrote:
All of those methods involve *not* running under KDE during the installation, right? So then the question comes down to: what's the least inhospitable environment for doing the installation if KDE itself is ruled out. The best I would hope for would be one where I can run Emacs under X, since that gives me both a scrollable shell and nice ways of manipulating directories.
Paul
Yes, log out from KDE first. But, then you don't need anything fancy to do the installation (i.e. if you are using rpms):
cd whererpmsare rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force *.rpm kdm
There you go... a simple console will do it...
One other question. How necessary is it to uninstall the older KDE RPMs explicitly? Steve Hatfield mentioned that the names of the new ones aren't all quite the same as the names of the old ones. Paul
On Wednesday 04 July 2001 13:27, Paul Abrahams wrote:
One other question. How necessary is it to uninstall the older KDE RPMs explicitly? Steve Hatfield mentioned that the names of the new ones aren't all quite the same as the names of the old ones.
Paul
He has point, (I can find an old "alpha" version rpm) although I did NOT remove them and so far I haven't noticed any problems... but... Hope it helps, Alvaro Novo SuSE 7.1 Pro -=- Kernel 2.4.2-4GB -=- KDE 2.2-Beta1 1:32pm up 2 days, 1:49, 1 user, load average: 1.22, 1.15, 1.10
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