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From: HawkEye on 7 Feb 2005 17:28 Can anyone help ? I need to update KDE, when I last did this I installed Thacs rpms. These are now in a subfolder and don't show in rpmdrake or as a urpmi source (Thacs site does just not the subfolder fopr kde 3.3.2) I don't really want to have to manually download every file (and don't remember how I did it originally) so can anyone give me a pointer or two on how to do this ? BTW the reason for the upgrade is because the arts daemon is partially broken and to upgrade this file to a hopefully fully working one requires a lot of the newer KDE. Thanks for any help. -- Regards Neil Registered Linux User 324599 No trees were cut down for the making of this mail. Many millions of electrons, however, were terribly inconvenienced
From: Ron Venema on 7 Feb 2005 20:53 HawkEye wrote: > Can anyone help ? I need to update KDE, when I last did this I installed > Thacs rpms. These are now in a subfolder and don't show in rpmdrake or > as a urpmi source (Thacs site does just not the subfolder fopr kde 3.3.2) > > I don't really want to have to manually download every file (and don't > remember how I did it originally) so can anyone give me a pointer or two > on how to do this ? > > BTW the reason for the upgrade is because the arts daemon is partially > broken and to upgrade this file to a hopefully fully working one > requires a lot of the newer KDE. > > Thanks for any help. > I would suggest installing Kde from Mandrake 10.2 beta. It seems to be pretty stable.
From: Gza on 8 Feb 2005 02:15 Maybe, but I think, the 10.2 beta will update the system (gcc, perl etc) , and it'd be dangerous, not? The thac's rpms (when you add the full thac's repo) provides the latest KDE packages (urpmi.addmedia thacs as you can see on the web site) Gza Mon, 07 Feb 2005 19:53:25 -0600 keltezýssel Ron Venema azt ýrta: >> > I would suggest installing Kde from Mandrake 10.2 beta. It seems to be > pretty stable.
From: Amund on 8 Feb 2005 05:38 HawkEye wrote: > Can anyone help ? I need to update KDE, when I last did this I installed > Thacs rpms. These are now in a subfolder and don't show in rpmdrake or as > a urpmi source (Thacs site does just not the subfolder fopr kde 3.3.2) > > I don't really want to have to manually download every file (and don't > remember how I did it originally) so can anyone give me a pointer or two > on how to do this ? > > BTW the reason for the upgrade is because the arts daemon is partially > broken and to upgrade this file to a hopefully fully working one requires > a lot of the newer KDE. > > Thanks for any help. > You have to find any mirror of Thacs, and configure your system to use this media with urpmi.addmedia command as described on the web pages. Like this: urpmi.addmedia thacs.rpms http://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/thac/10.1/RPMS with hdlist.cz I think some of the packages from Thacs depends on packages from plf and from the official mandrake "updates", and you should have installation media for "main" and "contrib". You can generate the urpmi.addmedia string here: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/. To get a list of the medias you have innstalled, just run mandrake.update, or you can see it in drakconf. Now you can use urpmi or rpmdrake to install packages. Thacs is updated daily with new packages for the current Mandrake release. To get an updates list of the packages: urpmi.update thacs.rpms And you can run urpmi.update for your plf and updates medias as well. To get updates lists for all of your medias: urpmi.update -a To upgrade kde, you can try to upgrade any packages like this: urpmi kdebase Or you can just try to upgrade everything: urpmi --auto-select Thacs provides kde 3.3.2 for Mandrake 10.1. You might get problems with dependendies when you upgrade kde from Thacs. I had to remove some packages like korganizer, before i was able to run urpmi --auto-select. You can remove packages with urpme. Like this: urpme korganizer Just remember witch packages you have removed. When you have updated KDE, you can reinstall them with urpmi. Like this: urpmi korganizer It might be very tricky to manage the dependendies the first time you run "urpmi --auto-select", after adding the Thacs media. But later, when you run daily updates with urpmi.update and urpmi --auto-select, it seems to be no problem. It seems like you can find KDE 3.3.1 under the Mandrake mirrors, in the devel/testing/Mandrakeclub/10.1/i586 directory. I have not tried it. But i guess you can install the media this way: urpmi.addmedia ClubTesting ftp://ftp.uninett.no/linux/Mandrakelinux/devel/testing/Mandrakeclub/10.1/i586 with hdlist.cz Amund
From: DanielEKFA on 8 Feb 2005 09:58
Ron Venema wrote: > HawkEye wrote: >> Can anyone help ? I need to update KDE, when I last did this I installed >> Thacs rpms. These are now in a subfolder and don't show in rpmdrake or >> as a urpmi source (Thacs site does just not the subfolder fopr kde 3.3.2) >> >> I don't really want to have to manually download every file (and don't >> remember how I did it originally) so can anyone give me a pointer or two >> on how to do this ? >> >> BTW the reason for the upgrade is because the arts daemon is partially >> broken and to upgrade this file to a hopefully fully working one >> requires a lot of the newer KDE. >> >> Thanks for any help. >> > I would suggest installing Kde from Mandrake 10.2 beta. It seems to be > pretty stable. I agree, it's much more stable than the 3.2.3 shipped with 10.1. The Thac RPMs have the same issues the MDK 3.2.3 ones before updating do. And to Gza, no it doesn't upgrade anything (or very little) other than KDE itself. The rest of your system will stay 10.1. I'd recommend anyone to use the 3.3.2 KDE from Cooker. Very good. I'm wondering if they're planning on not letting it out as an update to 10.1 but wait for 10.2, because the way the last ten or so 3.3.2 Cooker versions hav been running for quite some time (very very stable) it doesn't really make any sense that it hasn't made it to the update pool yet. My two eurocents anyway ;) -- Why do cats jump out of windows? Because it sucks! |