I have KDE 2.0 from the Mandrake installation and want to update to the latest
version on the mirror.
The question is really not about the configuration files. It seems to me that
the update utility can't update KDE while KDE itself is running, but since I run
the utility under KDE, ...... ???? (and don't want to do this experiment without
advice from others).
On 17-Mar-2001 Eran Levy wrote:
> Hi,
> The answer to your Second question: There are plenty of ideas about what
> can kde update cause to the configurations and things like that.
> Im sure that when you are updating from kde 1.x to kde 2.x there are some
> things that can be changed in the configuration files.
> I dont know which version you want to update to, but, You can update and if
> it will screw your configuration files you have all the original
> configuration files always in the .kde/ directory in your Home Directory.
> so you can copy files and things like that.
> I hope this helped.
>
> At 23:10 17/03/01 +0000, you wrote:
> I'm replying to the first of my own questions, but still want an answer to th
> e second one :-)
>
> On 17-Mar-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > In the list of mirrors, IGLU doesn't appear. I tried typing in the
> > address,
> > but that didn't help. I have ADSL so I don't really mind using a slower
> > mirror
> > somewhere else, but IGLU would be faster. Is there a way to use the
> utility
> > with the IGLU mirror?
> I tried again and it DOES work - but you have to enter the following address:
>
> ftp://ftp.iglu.org.il/pub/distributions/Mandrake/updates - the utility
> then adds the rest of the address .../7.2/RPMS
>
>
> >
> > 2 - Since I use KDE, and therefore run the Mandrake update utility under
> KDE,
> > I'm afraid to use it to update KDE itself. I assume the utility knows how
> to
> > **handle** this situation, but I don't want to try this experiment and
> screw
> > up
> > my system (unless someone can tell me they've done it).
> >
> >
>
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