Hi I am looking to do this upgrade...can you tell me what the "Ralf's" source is. i.e. What should I put in my sources.list or where you are downloading the .deb's. Thanks for the help.
--------------------------------------------- Loren A. Linden Levy 481 Loomis, Department of Physics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL 61801-3080 Tel: 217-244-7995 Fax: 217-333-1215 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] url: http://w3.physics.uiuc.edu/~lindenle/ --------------------------------------------- "Without software a computer is just a pile of electronics that gives off heat. If the hardware is the heart of a computer then the software is its soul." --David A Rusling from The Linux Kernel On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, John Gay wrote: > > After several nights fetching Ralf's packages, Linux Format put KDE3.1 onto > it's cover DVD, including sources and .deb's, so I thought I'd save time by > installing these instead. Unfortunately, they didn't seem to be the correct > version. After several fights with apt, dpkg and my brain, I eventually got > all of Ralf's .deb's installed. > > As far as I could tell, Ralf's .deb's had no problem up upgrading the > system. Once I had apt-get installed the packages listed, I then ran > apt-get dist-upgrade to clean everything up and now I've got a shiny, new > KDE3.1 desktop on my Woody system! It even kept all my configuration info > like my E-Mail access for KMail, bookmarks for Konqueror and such. Thanx > Ralf! > > So there doesn't 'seem' to be any problem using apt to install Ralf's > .deb's onto a Woody system. Of course there were a few extra items I had to > fetch seperately. I guess these were extra KDE3.1 packages that are not > part of the Official KDE system. > > Of course these are the experiences of just one person. But I have > maintained my system as a clean Woody system with only the security > updates. Therefore this is one proven example that Ralf's .deb's cleanly > upgrade a Woody system. > > Cheers, > > John Gay > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
