Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4237 mails)

[Richard <ratcheson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 19 August 2004 11:32 am, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> KDE 3.3 final has been released and there are already SuSE 9.1 RPMs
> available on the German SuSE servers:
>

> Now, the real question...
>
> What are people's strategies for dealing with such sizeable and
> important updates? SuSE themselves, while kindly and helpfully providing
> this update, has this to say (<URL:
> ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.3/SuSE/README>):
>
> -==-
> #
> # KDE 3.3 packages for SuSE distributions
> #
>
> Disclaimer:
>
>  These packages have NOT been tested at all and SuSE do NOT recommend to
>  upgrade to these. However we build these packages for convenience, but
>  it is your risc to use them ;)
>    You should not update, if you want to have a stable system and expect
>  to get security updates for your installation.
>
> To install these packages via command line you need to
>  * rpm -Fvh *.rpm
>
> An alternative way would be to use the yast_source from ftp.suse.com
> KDE update packages and using the YaST System Update.
> -==-

> Any thoughts, observations, ideas, etc. are welcome.
>
I just upgraded 3 machines using Yast and it went well.  Only one minor 
hitch on a Dell and HP laptop the tapping function quit but is easily 
restored by using sax2 and selecting the synaptics touchpad driver.

Looks good, is snappy and clean.  Life just keeps on getting better.
Richard