KDE 3.2/3.3 and SUSE 9.0

[John Voigt]

On 10/04/2004 11:38 AM, Roger Oberholtzer eloquently noted:

> 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.

Hmmmm, intersting. It uninstalled it on mine:

1014[jvoigt at dnrrec-tux]~> rpm -qa | grep kdebase3

kdebase3-samba-3.3.0-8
kdebase3-3.3.0-8
kdebase3-nsplugin-3.3.0-8
kdebase3-ksysguardd-3.3.0-8
kdebase3-extra-3.3.0-8
kdebase3-kdm-3.3.0-8

so perhaps I missed something (it wouldn't be the first time). I didn't 
really have any problems with the upgrade, except a few missing icons and 
such. There may be a couple of apps missing as well, but I can't tell which 
ones they would be - apparently they're the ones I don't use often.

The YaST-source procedure seems to work reasonably well. I've had far worse 
experiences with the rpm -[F]Uvh --force --nodeps method. You still may 
want to back up your .kde/ stuff first anyway.

<snip>

>>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. 

Glad to be of help for once ;-)

HTH,

John V.
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