Will your 2-command solution upgrade to 8.0 and NOT install over my 7.3 sytem thus making my system 8.0 compliant and with my existing apps etc? Thank You, Anthony
On donderdag 30 mei 2002 03:49, Joshua Lee wrote:
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!)
Upgrading is not more than 2 commands once you've APT running at your system. apt-get update apt-get upgrade and off you go
More about APT for SuSE at http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm