KDE 3.2/3.3 and SUSE 9.0

John Voigt jvoigt
Thu Oct 7 07:51:43 PDT 2004


On 10/07/2004 01:37 AM, Roger Oberholtzer eloquently noted:
> On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 17:10, John Voigt wrote:
> 
>>Strange. I downloaded the whole tree from ftp.gwdg.de to local disk and 
>>installed from there (for some reason ftp.suse.com is much slower for me). It 
>>seemed to work OK, with the exception of a few packages I needed to install later.
> 
> I may do the same. Maybe it is something to do with the ftp access by
> YAST. 

That could be. It's interesting that I usually find ftp.suse.com, and some of 
the US mirrors considerably slower than ftp.gwdg.de.

> I have never had any trouble before. Of course, maybe there have
> been updates not installed that I have not seen. The kde stuff was
> obvious. Something more to check.

Yup. I didn't really experience any serious problems, although YMMV. I've been 
debating installing it on my main machine at home, but I may just wait for the 
SuSE 9.2 update.

HTH,

John V.
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