I've been running KDE 3.x for some time now and agree with you that there could be a more smoother migration solution. I've also taken the Mantel 2.4.18 kernel rpms and applied them to my 7.3 distribution as well. So there isn't a YAST solution to upgrading my 7.3 system to 8.0 which would handle all the nuances? Anthony
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 10:21 am, Anthony W. Marino wrote:
You should probably use the 7.3 version, since the differences between the two packages are more likely to be in filesystem layout, KDE, etc. version, system libraries, etc. rather than kernel version.
Is there much effort to make a SuSE 7.3 installation conform to SuSE 8.0?
It's basically impossible to do it completely since one of the big changes was changing /etc/rc.config to several smaller files located under /etc/sysconfig; a change that would require that you install a new Yast and SuSEconfig among other things.
That having been said it is possible to make some 8.0 features become 7.3 features; such as downloading 7.3 RPMs of KDE3. For example, I'm running KDE 3.01 now, a newer version than in 8.0! I wouldn't reccomend the update though unless you want to re-edit all of your *.desktop files to not point to KDE2 directories, a job that you have to do for most of the items in your menus; something that KDE should have done automatically with "import old settings". Grrr.) (Even after doing that you should still get 7.3 RPMs, not 8.0 ones, unless they are incompatable with KDE3 somehow.) If, after hearing that, you still want to upgrade KDE let me know and I'll send you some instructions. The new KDE isn't all that much of a difference than KDE2 incidentally; the main difference is that it uses the new Qt libraries. (I already knew and expected that though; what I didn't expect was redoing most of my menu items with a text editor!)