On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Schlomo Schapiro wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You mean you didn't do a rpm -U on all the KDE2.1 RPMs ? How did you
> uninstall KDE2 from MDK7.2 ? Didn't you have any trouble using your KDE2.0
> settings on 2.1 ?
Typically one only modifies the personal settings, which reside under the
home directory and are not affected by installation of RPMs.
annoyingly enough, kde keeps all of its config under /usr/share . Unlike
the situation with, say, X app-defaults, and debian/mandrake menu entries
there is no way to have an overriding local settings under /etc . Thus
if you have modified the kde global config, and are using RPMs, you should
search that directory for *.rpmnew and *.rpmsave files (if there are none,
then you probably haven't changed the global configuration).
>
> Schlomo
>
>
> On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Shlomi Fish wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Schlomo Schapiro wrote:
> >
> > > Well, I it for sure wasn't MDK8.0 files since I d/l'ed them from
> > > ftp.kde.org/pub/..../2.1/..../Mandrake/7.2/...
> > > (the exact URL was on the list some mails earlier today).
> > >
> > > I didn't check wipingmy config (~/.kde), I'll try this maybe.
> > > Luckily I did a backup before installing the update :-)
There is also .kderc , right?
> > >
> > > But, did ANYBODY succeed in upgrading MDK7.2 to KDE2.1 ?? If yes, how ?
> > >
> >
> > I did it, and it works perfectly for me. AFAIR I just uninstalled and
> > installed the various RPMs. That's all there was to it.
This means that /if/ you have changed any global config file
(/usr/share/config) , thenthose changes are lost.
But typically one changes the per-user settings, and not the global
settings.
> > > On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Schlomo Schapiro wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > I d/l'ed and installed the KDE 2.1 MDK RPMs on a fresh MDK7.2 (rpm -U) and
> > > > > it completely destroyed my MDK installation.
> > > > >
> > > > > * KDM looked different, probably the 2.1 one didn't use the Mandrake
> > > > > config files
> > > >
> >> > Or maybe it uses the MDK8.0 config files :(
> > > >
> > > > > * Nothing worked inside of KDE, I only got many many error messages about
> > > > > missing somethings which looked like a mimetype on io* stuff
> > > > >
> > > > > It seems like the MDK RPMs where not made by MDK and where not adapted to
> > > > > the distro at all.
> > > > >
> > > > > So, does anybody know how to upgrade smoothly MDK7.2 to KDE2.1 ? (Without
> > > > > busting the setups) ?
> > > >
> > > > I haven't tested it myself, but one suggestion:
> > > >
> > > > Maybe it is a clash between your user config file and the system config?
> > > >
> > > > To check that, add a new user, and login with it. Try to see if the
> > > > desktop now looks sane.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > --
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