Kit,
In order to drop out to a console, even though it's not necessary to do
the update, just hit CTRL+ALT+F1. that will take you to a console. You
will be looking at a console login prompt. Log in as root, and do your
stuff. Navigate to the dir with the packages in and issue the command to
start the upgrade process.
rpm -Uvh --test *.rpm
I like to use the --test argument to test for dependency problems first to
make sure everything is good to go, then if I don't get anything returned
to the command line I remove the --test argument and run the update.
After you've done the "rpm --rebuilddb" and "update-menus" you can return
to your still running X-windows session by pressing CTRL+ALT+F7. From
here, if you're not already there you can log out of your X-windows
session to the graphical login screen and restart your computer. Actually,
all you should really have to do is start the X server, but sometimes
folks feel better if they restart the system entirely. A left over of the
Windows world. Nothing to be ashamed of.
That's all there is to it.
Mark
On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, KompuKit wrote:
>
> Below, is a portion of what you had instructed...
> for installing KDE2.1.1 final.
>
> How exactly do you EXIT KDE to go into console mode...?
>
> do you exit as if to logout of the system...then when it asks..
> select console mode????????
>
> is this how?
>
> Benjamin Sher wrote:
>
> > After installation, exit KDE, then in the console do a:
> >
> > #rpm --rebuilddb (rebuilding the database)
> >
> > and
> >
> > #update-menus -v
> >
> > Then reboot and you've got KDE 2.1.1. You can check the Control Center to see
> > the new version number.
>
>
