Upgrade KDE with YUM

Alexander Appel alexander at caput.org
Sun Mar 20 15:03:02 UTC 2005


Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> Alexander Appel wrote:
> 
>> Sharon Kimble wrote:
>>
>>> Paul D. Jones wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi, here is a silly question from a noob....
>>>>
>>>> Can I upgrade KDE 3.3 to 3.4 using YUM (FC3)? If so, what might be the
>>>> command?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks a lot
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes Paul, you can. I used 'yum update' but I was also using
>>> kde-redhat-testing as part of my yum.conf. Thats how I upgraded kde 
>>> to 3.4.
>>>
>>> Sharon.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> You can also point yum to KDE's own Repo for the 3.4 RPMs at (using a 
>> mirror) 
>> http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/Mirrors/ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.4/RedHat/Fedora3/i386 
>>
>>
>> There should be a closer mirror to you, just look on the KDE 3.4 
>> info-page on www.kde.org.
>>
>> The yum-update went flawlessly and KDE 3.4 worked very well since then.
>>
>> Alexander
>>
> Will this cause any issues when/if the Fedora guys roll out KDE to the 
> redhat repos?

I don't know if they will. I Thought KDE 3.4 is supposed to be in Fedora 
4 and won't appear in FC3.




More information about the fedora-list mailing list