On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 10:57:43AM +0300, Aryan Ameri scrawled: > I am currently running Karolina's KDE 3.1 RC5 Packages for sid (compiled > with gcc 2.95) on my system, which is a mixture of sarge/sid. After > hearing so much, about the disadvantages of keeping a mix system, and > now that KDE 3.1.1 is in sid, I decided to upgrade completely to sid. > But apt-get dist-upgrade wants to remove 292 packages, including all > KDE packages. > > Is there any way upgrade instead of remove/install? Because I really > can't afford to lose all my KDE settings. Is there alteast, some way to > save all these application settings (like Konqueror and KMail) and then > restore them? Unfortunately, as Karolina's packages are basically a fork, and she does not believe in Conflicts/Replaces, there's no way we can provide a clean upgrade path. Your best bet is to remove kdelibs4 and libarts1, as well as the rest of the remenants of Karolina's packaging, and then run apt-get install arts kdelibs kdebase kdenetwork kdeutils [...]. -- Daniel Stone <dstone@trinity.unimelb.edu.au> Developer, Trinity College, University of Melbourne
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