On Thursday 26 May 2005 11:13 pm, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
here is the wget commnd to download all of the kde 3.4 rpms frpm suse
wget -m -nH --cut-dirs=7 'ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementa ry/KDE/update_for_9.2'
create a directory, cd to it, run the wget command, go to bed, complete in morning.
Or do what I do and wait for a friend in the local linux group to make a cd of them for you. I am not convinced to get 9.3 yet so let me know how it goes.
Hello. I'm not the guy that started this thread (in fact, this is the first time I've posted to this list), but I followed that earlier advice in order to upgrade KDE on my laptop, which is running 9.2. I downloaded everything except the source and yast-source folders. I threw all the RPMs together in one folder, then burned that onto a CD. I then shut down KDE completely, removed ~/.kde, cd'ed to the CD, and did a rpm -Fv *rpm, and rebooted. Perhaps I went about it the hard way, but I'm still pretty much a newbie. I'm now using KDE 3.4, and as far as I can tell, I've had only one issue, with Kontact. It was unable to send my login and password to the SMTP server. I googled it, and learned that the cyrus-sasl packages are needed to fix this. I installed them from the SuSE 9.2 DVD, and the problem was solved. As far as I can tell, I've had no issues. I discovered also that KMail moved its mail storage directory on me, so I manually moved my mail to the new location -- a five minute fix. KDE 3.4 is very impressive, imho. Hope this helps. Travis. -- "The only real way to look younger is not to be born so soon." -- Charles Schulz, "Things I've Had to Learn Over and Over and Over"