KDE 3.2/3.3 and SUSE 9.0

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 17:54, John Voigt wrote:

> > 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.

But I see that it is leaving this installed. Maybe I need to re-install
it afterward to get things back? I bet it puts this in a different
directory, making a re-install less useful.

> 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

Just what I was looking for. My Google search keys somehow did not turn
this one up. Or I just did not see it. Odd that there is no info on this
on SUSE's own site. I know. They want me to upgrade to 9.1.

Thanks!

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