Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3863 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 04 February 2004 01.42, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 February 2004 7:19 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
> > On Wednesday 04 February 2004 01.17, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
> > > The ftp site has a large collection of packages.  I wonder -- is there
> > > any automated method for updating just those packages that I already
> > > have installed from an earlier version of KDE?
> >
> > First method: install red carpet and let it upgrade for you. I just did,
> > it was a one-click upgrade
>
> Could you provide a pointer to red carpet?

http://www-files.ximian.com/redcarpet2/suse-90-i586/

get the rcd and rug rpms and install them. Then start rcd with

/etc/init.d/rcd start

Then, as root, run "rug install red-carpet". Answer "y" when it asks you if 
it's ok. Then once it's finished you can start the gui with "red-carpet".

To get the suse rpms to show up, do "rug service-add 
http://open-carpet.org"; (or add that service through the GUI). Then you'll 
see a bunch of channels show up. From them, select KDE, and you should see 
all the kde packages available for update.

The above steps are just for the initial installation. In future, when there's 
new updates available, you'll be presented with them when you start 
red-carpet, so you can just hit "update all" and be done with it.

>
> > Second method: rpm -Fvh
> > http://ftp.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.2/SuSE/ix86/9.0/*.rpm
>
> I tried that and got:
>
> suillus:/home/pwa # rpm -Fvh http://ftp.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.2/SuSE/
> ix86/9.0/*.rpm
> error: File not found by glob:
> http://ftp.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.2/SuSE/ ix86/9.0/*.rpm

OK, yeah, the path would have to be to the exact location of the rpms, I guess 
that would be something like .../9.0/base/*.rpm or .../9.0/applications/*.rpm