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pickarooney
02-19-2004, 03:41 PM
Is there an easy way to upgrade from KDE 3.1 to 3.2 via RPM, preferably with urpmi (Mandrake 9.1)?
And does anyone know if KDE 3.2 has fixed the bug in 3.1 that doesn't save changes to file associations after reboots (The main reason I want to update, or else change to Gnome or somethign more reliable).
mdwatts
02-19-2004, 04:00 PM
Originally posted by pickarooney
And does anyone know if KDE 3.2 has fixed the bug in 3.1 that doesn't save changes to file associations after reboots (The main reason I want to update, or else change to Gnome or somethign more reliable).
Have you had a look through the changelog for KDE 3.2 on www.kde.org ?
pickarooney
02-19-2004, 04:42 PM
I found something about KPrefs but google only threw up some empty links and incomprehensible leet-speak docs when I serached for KPrefs.
I found some reference to the files in ~/.kde/share/mimelnk/ but these files don't much correspond with what I want to do.
Then I tried kbuildsycoca --noincremental which I found on a site, and got the warning:
kbuildsycoca is unable to register with DCOP
I think this may be a source of the problem. Whatever DCOP is, it's not being written to and that's possible where the preferences are getting lost.
hmmm, ran /usr/bin/dcopserver, followed by kbuildsycoca and it didn't return an error message for once. .
pickarooney
02-19-2004, 05:36 PM
Gahhh, still doesn't work, everyhting's gone again after reboot, even with a slight update to KDE 3.1.4.
So, back to my original question - how to upgrade to 3.2...
mdwatts
02-19-2004, 05:48 PM
Download all the rpms to a directory and then
urpmi *.rpm
??
Nothing on the Mandrake site on how to upgrade to KDE 3.2? I would think someone would have written a guide by now? One of the previous guides for upgrading to KDE 3.1?
pickarooney
02-19-2004, 06:31 PM
There's about 100 packages with KDE in them. I also need to find a mirror with the 3.2 packages on them to add to my urpmi.addmedia. I'll keep looking.
mdwatts
02-19-2004, 06:34 PM
Originally posted by pickarooney
There's about 100 packages with KDE in them.
You don't need all if you do not have the previous versions installed to begin with.
Create a list
rpm -qa | grep kde > kderpm.list
and then only download what you need to upgrade.
pickarooney
02-19-2004, 06:57 PM
Ah, that's quite handy, thanks. :)
Just need a source now... :D
Probably just wait for KDE.org to link to some Mandrake RPMs.