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Re: Upgrading to KDE 3.1 in Sid



On 02.Apr 2003 - 15:30:43, Aryan Ameri wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> Thanks Seven, Daniel and Ralph for their prompt advices.
> 
> On Wednesday 02 April 2003 12:27, Sven Kissner wrote:
> > Hi Aryan,
> >
> > just move ~/.kde out of the wa a ky (maybe to ~/.kde.old), it contains
> > all of your settings. (you may check /etc/ fordm dir, also..).
> 
> Aside from ~/.kde, I also have a /etc/kde3, shall I also backup this 
> directory? Will restoring these two directories, really restore all my 
> KDE settings? like konqueror's bookmarks and KMail's filters? I'm 
> afraid I am just a bit worried.

if /etc/kde3 is installed from the kde packages: yes. The restoring
should be done by hand and one setting after another, because sometimes
the programs stop working if the settings-files are confusing for them.
Konquerors bookmarks are in ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/bookmarks.xml,
how the file with kmails filters is called I don't know, but it is
supposed to be in ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail. So that will be restored when
you restore ~/.kde .

> What about my ~/.Mail directory. I guess this one is used by KMail, will 
> removing KMail also remove this directory?

That directory does not depend on KDE, KMail places index-Files into
that but any other MUA will use that directory too. Anyway even purging
KDE does not remove anything in your $HOME, only system
configurationfiles in /etc are deleted with a --purge, whereas without
they would reside there.

> What about fonts that I have installed via KDE Control Center's font 
> installer? Shall I also reinstall them after installing the new KDE?

Sorry don't know about that, as I installed all fonts by hand/by defoma
(I think - was long time ago).

> On Wednesday 02 April 2003 13:04, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > and then run apt-get install arts kdelibs kdebase
> > kdenetwork kdeutils [...]
> 
> Where can I get the names of the these metapackages?

How about "apt-cache search kde | grep ^kde" ?

Andreas

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