do something smart like <br>
tar cvjpf bobs_home_dir.bz2 /path/to/your/house<br>
before you go any further.<br>
<br>
This way you can blow away your home dir and selectively import things like your<br>
./stuff directories. Like .mozilla, .thunderbird and the like<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/8/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">James Richard Tyrer</b> <<a href="mailto:tyrerj@acm.org">tyrerj@acm.org</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">bob santana wrote:<br>> Hi,<br>><br>> Well I use linux for few years now and I like to ask
<br>> you,what should I do to upgrade KDE.<br>> I don`t use some kind of shell or terminal program and<br>> is it possible that you can explain me how to upgrade<br>> KDE kerne with out screw up anything.<br><br>
It is possible that your distro supports an automatic download and<br>upgrade system. If that is the cause, you need to use that.<br><br>Otherwise, if you have an RPM based distro that uses KPackage, you need<br>to download a KDE package for the new version for each KDE package
<br>currently installed. To make this clear, the only way to Upgrade KDE is<br>to Upgrade ALL of the packages at the same time; you can NOT upgrade<br>them one at a time.<br><br>Then,as root, move them to the location where your disto keeps its RPMs.
<br> This is normally:<br><br> /usr/src/<distro>/RPMS/<arch><br><br>E.G.<br><br> /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386<br><br>Then as root, open KPackage and click on the "New" tab. Select the new
<br>KDE RPMs to Upgrade by clicking in the "Mark" column. After selecting<br>all of them, click the: "Install Marked" button. The action window will<br>then open with a list of the packages to install. Click the "Install"
<br>button. If you missed a package, you will also get a message that the<br>old version depends on the other old versions. If that is the case, you<br>either need to get the new version of that package or uninstall the old
<br>version.<br><br>Unfortunately, this will probably result in a list of other packages<br>which you need to Upgrade before you can Upgrade KDE. You need to<br>download these from your distro's FTP site and Upgrade them first.
<br><br>After upgrading, you should IMMEDIATELY end your KDE session and restart<br>KDE.<br><br>--<br>JRT<br>___________________________________________________<br>This message is from the kde mailing list.<br>Account management:
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http://www.kde.org/faq.html</a>.<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Got Gentoo?<br><br>It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.<br> -- Mark Twain<br>