Since we are on the upgrading subject, I am running SuSE Ver 8.1 with KDE 3 0. I loaded this system on a fresh hard drive with nothing else on the hard drive except a small partition left behind from formatting the hard drive using DOS's fdisk. I had a bugger of a time getting it to even load (brand new CD's). After about four try's it finally took. I have the professional version since it was the same price. This system has not been at all stable, from time to time it flat kicks me off and wants me to sign on again. Is this a session time out? Open Office won't allow me to save a document. It keeps defaulting to the root/opt/openoffice.org/work directory as a place to save the document. Well the "/work" part of this directory does not exist. So, I signed in as the administrator using the "root xterm with permissions" and tried to make this part of the directory exist. When I changed to the /OpenOffice.org" part of the directory I got an error that say's it does not exist. I can clearly see that it does exist through the file manager!!! So, I think I have a wounded copy of Open Office and tried repairing it through the repair option in the Open Office setup / configuration module. Still no go! So I sign in as administrator an completely re-installed the program. Several errors occurred which tells me I still have a wounded copy. I even tried to save the doc in MS Word format and an org format in a different directory that "does exist" and it would not let me! Boy I thought this would be more stable than what those "MS windows" people put out, but now I m not so sure! Hal -------Original Message------- From: Tomas Willebrand Date: Thursday, March 27, 2003 2:33:06 PM To: js1@liverpool.ac.uk Cc: suse-kde@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-kde] Upgrading to KDE 3.11 Hi John; I have just gone through the same procedure and for much the same reasons as you. Maybe I have been tinkering a bit longer (sometimes makes me question how much productivity I have gained after all!). I am not a computer person but an assistant professor in wildife ecology using Latex and CRAN-R which made me look at a LINUX environment to start with .
1) If I want to keep the stablity should I wait and upgrade the distribution which will include the lastest version of KDE?
I have upgraded to KDE 3.1.1. and have no problems with stability. There seem to be some minor issue with printing and CUPS. At least I have had the problem that have been discussed on other KDE-lists. It seems to be related to how /etc/hosts is set up. I did get such problems when moving between department (DHCP) and home (local). My printers on my box and on the NT-servers at work are now working fine!
2) If its thought that it is safe to upgrade to 3.1 then what is the recommended method/route?
Since I had used debian for some time earlier I have installed apt4rpm/synaptic as suggested by Tom Wesley. I have even used it for a complete upgrade of 8.0 to 8.1 but had to do that 4 times before it succeeded. The nice thing with apt4rpm in combination with synaptic is that you can upgrade your installed software very easily. See http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/ and feel free to ask me for help if you get stuck. I would recommend you to log into www.suse.de/en and download the base packages for KDE by hand and install them by rpm -Uvh ...... Starting with the libs and qt. When you have the base KDE going you can use synaptic for installing and upgrading additional software. I would leave out the directory 'xfree' in the apt-source list since installing xfree4.3 doesn't appear to be without problems.I have not tried it myself so I can't really tell. I always choose what to upgrade manully in synaptic and never go for a complete upgrade of all available installed software. I use yast2 to search for files that sometimes are needed by new packages but not installed. Be sure to close synaptic before starting yast2 to handle software. I have found Linux, xfree and KDE to be very impressive, and I am very grateful to all the people making such an joint effort to make everything work. Thank you all. (Although I am still confused why Kate will not apply when I change the selected language in the spell checking!) I do sometimes lack a discussion list for research applications in Linux. It can take a lot of time finding/selecting the software to invest time in. I am currently not sure what I will use for producing publishable graphs. I would also like to see a software that could do simulations as Stella or Powersim. /Tomas -- To unsubscribe, email: suse-kde-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, email: suse-kde-help@suse.com Please do not cross-post to suse-linux-e .