On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:27:16AM -0500, KMcLauchlan@chrysalis-its.com wrote:
Assuming that I ever get enough of KDE 3.1 onto my system, what needs to be changed in order for 3.1 to start, rather than 3.0.x??
I downloaded the Suse Linux KDE 3.1 packages from ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.1/SuSE/ix86/8.1/ into a directory (/mnt/kde). I then wrote the following little script #! /bin/sh -- for i in /mnt/kde/*rpm do name="`rpm -q --queryformat="%{NAME}\n" -p $i" inst="`rpm -q $name 2>/dev/null" if [ -n "$inst" ] then echo "$i" else echo "#$i" fi done to generate a file "inst" which contained the names of all files I was to install as well of all files I was not to install as comments. I hand-checked that file, enabled a few more packages manually, and # grep -v "^#" inst > inst2 # rpm -U `cat inst2` was all that was necessary to install the update. Make sure to logout, get a text mode console and "init 3", then "init 5" the system to get a fresh X server, a new KDM instance and after login a new KDE 3.1 session. KDM is part of kdebase3-kdm-3.1-51 and installs to /opt/kde3/bin/kdm in Suse Linux 8.1. Kristian -- http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/wishlist/18E5SVQ5HJZXG