On Fri November 25 2005 2:55 pm, Randall R Schulz wrote:
I know nothing of smart and how it's used in and integrated with the SuSE distribution, but I'm pretty sure neither YOU nor the on-line SuSE repositories (the official ones from Novell) will never supply KDE 3.5, only bug-fix updates to the 3.4.2 that shipped with the initial release.
I used apt before ( along with Yast & YOU), so I already had the repositories setup. smart is very nice, and I like it MUCH better than apt. you run "smart upgrade" first to update your config files with the current apps on the repositories, then smart upgrade to download & install the latest versions of any apps you have installed.
In the past, I've routinely moved up to new KDE releases as they were made available on one of the "supplementary" repositories. I do this because KDE progresses quite rapidly and I've come to really appreciate the new features that keep appearing. I've had relatively little trouble with this, but SuSE / Novell isn't going to venture into such major upgrades within a given release. To get their support / blessing of such an upgrade, you have to move up to a new release of the distribution.
oh, I think I did that with KDE 3.4 ( it was so traumatic I think I forgot about it:) went to KDE.org, downloaded all the new apps, and ran rpm -i *.rpm then did the same for the SUSE menus. Is it time to do that for KDE 3.5 ?? -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800