Upgrade KDE with YUM

Arthur Pemberton dalive at flashmail.com
Sat Mar 19 06:44:48 UTC 2005


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?




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