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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
