Re: Upgrading to KDE 3.1
On Tuesday 28 January 2003 12:39 pm, Jeetu Golani wrote:
> Hey ppl,
>
> I have KDE 3.0.4 running at the moment, had installed the debs of
> this. I wanna upgrade to KDE 3.1. I've read that an apt-get upgrade
> doesn't do the trick and causes problems. Would appreciate if someone
> here could tell me what's the right way to upgrade.
>
> Thanks
Put this deb line in your /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://devel-home.kde.org/~nolden/kde stable main
1. Log out of KDE and use a plain ol' console window.
2. as root /etc/init.d/kdm stop
3. as root apt-get update
4. as root apt-get upgrade -s (tests to see what would be upgraded)
5. as root apt-get --purge remove libqt3 (this should remove all the
other kde packages that depend on qt. doc stuff doesn't and will not
be removed).
6. as root apt-get upgrade -s
7. See if #6 caused any problems with the removal of libqt3.
8. as root apt-get install arts kdebase kdelibs kdeaddons kdeaddons
kdeadmin kdegraphics kdeedu kdenetwork qt3 etc (rest of kde packages)
9. If you run into a bind you can use as root dpkg --purge --force-all
any conflicting kde packages that weren't removed with apt-get --purge
remove libqt3. I had to do this because I didn't remove kde 3.0.5a
first.
I have kde3.1 installed on both a x86 and powerpc computers using the
debs provided by Ralph and others. The new version of kde is just
great.
Note that for non-officially sanctioned deb packages such as available
at Ralph Nolden's site it is best to remove all of kde and qt first
before doing an install of kde3.1. He has a web page that contains
some more detailed information:
http://devel-home.kde.org/~nolden/kde/README
He has koffice and other packages as well. All of the kde3.1 is
compiled with gcc-2.95 (stable's compiler). Once the gcc-3.2
transition. Official debian packages will go into SID and be migrated
to testing. If you run stable or testing Ralphs debs will work.
Holler if you need help.
John
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