KDE 3.2.2

Elvio Caruana elvio at cs.um.edu.mt
Wed May 5 08:21:53 UTC 2004


> Like most newbies I have made the mistake of installing programs rather
> than upgrading or freshening an example is I have Evolution installed
> from Red Hat 9 as I didn't know what I was doing I installed Evolution
> 1.4 now I think I have two versions of Evolution installed and am scared
> to un-install in case I loose anything.

Nothing to worry about - evolution stores everything in
/home/<user>/evolution in standard mbox format. It will not get corrupt
if you use it on different versions.

Back it up, just in case, and use rpm -qa | grep evolution
and remove the older version with rpm -e <package>

>  
> 
> On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 21:43, Austin Isler wrote:
> > I downloaded all the files to a temp directory, then I used the command
> > rpm -Uvh <insert filenames here> be sure to use the * wildcard so you
> > don't have to type all the filenames.
> > example: kde*.rpm qt*.rpm
> > 
> > Austin
> 
> -- 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Peter Cannon
> 
> peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk
> 
> "And when Alexander saw the breadth of his domain,
> he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer."






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