I have a main system with kde 3.1 that came with suse 8.2 and a laptop with exactly the same and use NFS to give the same desktop and home directory.
The next step is to fully evaluate kde 3.2 on my laptop before upgrading the main system
...how best to aproach this please? Can I just upgrade my laptop without risking my 3.1 system settings and still have the same desktop and home directory?
Basically, you could simply do a backup of /opt/kde3 and ~/.kde (of
all users (are there any other user specific dirs?) before
installing 3.2, an if you don't like it, restore the 3.1 backup.
If you want to be able to switch between the versions, this is how
it could work:
init 3
cd /opt
mv kde3 kde3.1
rpm -Uvh