On 02/11/2010 09:37 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates,
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Thanks for all the information.
I do have one/some question as the result of my being "new" to the opensuse community.
At the moment my opensuse 11.2 system doesn't indicate a update/upgrade is available to KDE 4.4. So, has 4.4 been officially released for 11.2? Or, do I have to enable a "beta" repository to get it to install...or?
Thanks, Ed
Ed, Opensuse has several different "sets" of kde repositories. You have the normal kde repositories that contain the version shipped with 11.2 (a dog, you need to change repos), then there is the kde4.3 repositories that holds the latest 4.3 stable version -- currently 4.3.5, and then there is 'factory' which is where opensuse does its development work on the latest releases of packages to test, etc.. KDE:Factory is usually stable enough for daily use as suse doesn't change it enough to break too many things, but be aware that it isn't thoroughly test, so you may find a bug or two. What you need to do is disable your current kde repositories. Just use yast -> Repository Manager and look for any repositories with 'KDE' in the name and disable them. The simply add the following repositories to get kde44 when you update: http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/D... =http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Community/... http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Playground... The easy way to add the repositories is: zypper ar TheRepositoryURL RepositoryAlias Example zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/D... kde4factory Do the same for the other 2. Then use yast -> Repository Manager to (TEMPORARILY DISABLE THE 'openSuSE Updates' REPOSITORY (or similar name on your system), then use yast -> Software Management, and choose 'Packages -> All Packages -> Update If Newer Version Available', resolve any dependencies and you may need to click the 'AllowVendorChange' check box to get the packages from the factory repositories (I just enable the setting in /etc/zypp/zypp.conf to get rid of that hassle) and choose Accept and ----> go get a beer and let it run for a while. You will probably have 200M - 600M of updates depending on your setup. I have a slow 1M connection so it took about an hour to do. Good luck! P.S. also install 'webpin' which is a command line utility to search all packages in all of the repositories to help find any package you are looking for. Then you can just browse: http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/repositories/ To locate the repository to add or just to see what all other repositories are available. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org