First of all, please limit your line length to not more than 80 characters (not much more then 70 would be even better :). This makes it easier to view your mail with a text mode MUA and also eases replying. brooksfamily@sunflower.com [Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:30:50 -0600]:
For newbies such as myself who don't know how to hack programs and edit files, certain functionality (though not necessarily "guaranteed") would really be nice.
Newbies should just refrain from doing such an upgrade. These KDE upgrades are unsupported and only meant for those that know how to deal with problems that might arise.
"YOU is for up_dates_ not up_grades_."
Why is this not the case? Let me rephrase: why wasn't YOU designed to implement upgrades as well as updates?
Of cause YOU could also do upgrades. But it is strict SUSE policy to not offer version upgrades for released distributions if it can be avoided. The reason is, that new versions may behave differently or have different dependencies, just to name a few reasons. Version updates are left for new versions of SUSE Linux.
Heck, I would be happy if I could figure out how to install packages from a file, a la redcarpet. That would really help out a lot.
Check out apt4rpm, it might offer what you want. cheers Philipp