* Kevin McLauchlan (kevinmcl@magma.ca) [030202 12:43]: ->Is it legal/safe to run synaptic (or apt-get) to upgrade KDE while ->KDE3.0.5 is running? -> ->Or must I go to a text login (or maybe GNOME...) before invoking apt-get ? Sure. You can be running KDE while updating via synaptic. But why not just shutdown KDM and use apt's commandline? All you have to do is log out of KDE and shutdown KDM. Then log in at a prompt and type this as root. apt-get update && apt-get upgrade It will show you what's going to be updated and you just type Y. Pretty simple. :) I would also get rid of all KDE related stuff out of /tmp and remove .mcop* out of your home directory. Also don't forget to remove the 2 tmp files in the .kde directory in your home directory. This is always a good idea when upgrading KDE. It gets rather cranky about previous version tmp files. Cheers! -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I'll tell you what you should see.

Kevin McLauchlan (kevinmcl@magma.ca) wrote:

Is it legal/safe to run synaptic (or apt-get) to upgrade KDE while KDE3.0.5 is running?

I did it yesterday with synaptic without any problem. At first there was some dependency problem with, I believe, kdeartwork3. After removing it and running it again, no problems at all. I removed temp files in /tmp, rebooted and everything works - konqueror, KDM .. I never had such a smooth update/upgrade with apt :-)) Great tool! Sincerely, Gour -- Gour gour@mail.inet.hr Registered Linux User #278493