[Kde-kiosk] A nice uniform desktop for all users...

[Verner Kjærsgaard]

Torsdag 16 september 2004 13:00 skrev Daniel Bertolo:
> Am Do 16.09.2004 12:34 schrieb Verner Kjærsgaard <vk at os-academy.dk>:
> > Onsdag 15 september 2004 23:55 skrev Daniel Bertolo:
> > > Am Mittwoch, 15. September 2004 21.14 schrieb Verner Kjærsgaard:
> > > > > As far as Kiosktool and lockdown is concerned, yes. However, by
> > > > > default
> > > > > YOU will not give you the latest and greatest KDE.
> > > >
> > > > Experience taught me to stick with standard. So
> > > > SuSE9.1/KDE3.2.whatever
> > > > it'll be.
> > >
> > > Ever had problems updating KDE on SuSE using the supplementary
> > > updates from
> > > YOU (as described)? We updated all our desktops to KDE 3.2.3
> > > (including the
> > > ones in our school) without any problem. On my reference machine, I
> > > updated
> > > to KDE 3.3.0 (uninstall KDE-SuSE first) which I will deploy by the
> > > end of
> > > the month. Go ahead and give it a try. As far as I know, you need at
> > > least
> > > KDE 3.2.3 in order to use the kioskadmintool (which is actually
> > > great).
> > >
> > > Yours,
> > > Daniel
> >
> > Thank you for the advice - I shall indeed try it out on a fresh S9.1
> > machine.
> > This leads me to just one question; "uninstall KDE-SuSE first...", but
> > how-to? Should I jump to runlevel 3, go root and fire up console YAST
> > and
> > from there de-select (i.e. uninstall) all of KDE?
>
> No, you just have to delete one single package which is called
> kdebase3-SuSE. This contains some SuSE "enhancements" to KDE (the SuSE
> K-Menu button, the SuSE theme etc).
>
> Afterwards add another installation source in YaST which contains the
> supplementary KDE packages
> (ftp://your-mirror-here/path-to-suse-mirror/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/upd
>ate_for_9.1).
>
> Afterwards go to "Install software" in YaST. Now, you will find the
> updated packages. In graphical mode they appear blue.
>
> Yours,
> Daniel
>
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I shall give it a try later today.
Thank you - I'll keep you informed.
 
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Med venlig hilsen/Best regards
Verner Kjærsgaard
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