KDE 3.2/3.3 and SUSE 9.0

[John Voigt]

On 10/04/2004 06:00 AM, Roger Oberholtzer eloquently noted:

> I have been toying with updating the stock KDE 3.1 on SUSE 9.0 to KDE 
> 3.3, using the RPMs on the SUSE site. Has anyone here done this?

Yup.

> Do you loose the various bits that SUSE add to the original product?

You will lose a couple of the SuSE-specific packages, IIRC,
kdebase3-SuSE-9.0-68.i386.rpm is one of them. I also had to reassign a few
missing icons. For the most part, however, things went pretty well.

> Is there no way to point YAST at the SUSE site and have it install the
> updates? There are many many RPMs here...

You need to point YaST to the yast-source directory in the location you
will be installing from (select "Change Source of Installation" in YaST). I
downloaded to the local disk, but you can do it from an ftp site as well.
There is a corrected step by step post here which explains the process:

http://www.netsys.com/suse-linux-e/2004/08/msg02450.html

HTH,

John V.
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