[opensuse] Upgrade question ..
I am on 11.1 and KDE 3.5. Can I - do - the upgrade path - without doing anything extra - to upgrade to 11.2 and still keep KDE 3.x ? -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler@att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home & Business user of Linux - 10 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2010-03-29 16:30, Duaine Hechler wrote:
I am on 11.1 and KDE 3.5.
Can I - do - the upgrade path - without doing anything extra - to upgrade to 11.2 and still keep KDE 3.x ?
I think not. However, you can later on install KDE3 again, from it's OBS repo. Hopefully your personal configurations will survive, if you don't try to start kde4 before (methinks). - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Elessar)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuwvo4ACgkQU92UU+smfQUDiQCfYXKoEPJ3s3qfOpioHUdTBUbQ JD0An28mORhhyEtgt1yboLWrvoGdZlRE =tqGk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 2010/03/29 09:30 (GMT-0500) Duaine Hechler composed:
I am on 11.1 and KDE 3.5.
Can I - do - the upgrade path - without doing anything extra - to upgrade to 11.2 and still keep KDE 3.x ?
I don't know if this is documented or supported, but I tried it just a few days ago and IIRC it seems to work OK. A system came to me a short time back with WinXP installed on a 120G partition on a 160G HD. In order to avoid KDE4, I installed 11.1 in the freespace. I found that its onboard ATI video chip was not supported by the relatively ancient generic 11.1 radeon driver, so I decided to try a 'zypper dup' upgrade to avoid the absence of a KDE3 option in the 11.2 installer. Here's how I went about it (largely from /root/.bash_history, and in runlevel 3): 1-backed up /etc/zypp/repos.d 2-changed all files in /etc/zypp/repos.d to point to 11.2 instead of 11.1 3-copied a KDE3 repo to /etc/zypp/repos.d http://fm.no-ip.com/tmp/SUSE/112/KDE3.repo 4-zypper ref 5-zypper in openSUSE-release rpm zypper libzypp mkinitrd dbus-1 hal udev wget curl satsolver-tools perl-Bootloader yast2-bootloader 6-zypper dup 7-zypper in kernel-desktop 8-reboot to kernel-desktop 9-zypper rm (all kernels except current) 10-zypper rm kdm kdebase4-workspace kde4-kgreeter-plugins 11-zypper in kdebase3-kdm 12-edit /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager to point DISPLAYMANAGER to kdm3 -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 29 March 2010 16:30:23 Duaine Hechler wrote:
I am on 11.1 and KDE 3.5.
Can I - do - the upgrade path - without doing anything extra - to upgrade to 11.2 and still keep KDE 3.x ?
You should be able to register the KDE:KDE3 repo for 11.2 prior while setting up the installation and it will install the latest KDE3 packages. Alternatively, you could prevent the upgrade from uninstalling your existing KDE packages, but I'd go with the former route. Will -- Will Stephenson, KDE Developer, openSUSE Boosters Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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