Should I upgrade to KDE4.2?

[caf4926]

@ zmdmw52

Seriously Dude, That is such as mess. And for someone who has to ask these questions - you have WAY too many repo's.

Even if you were to follow my recommendation - I suspect you are going to have all kinds of issues

Keep only these

8 | KDE4_Factory_Desktop_Community_Apps | KDE4_Factory_Desktop_Community Apps | Yes | Yes | Index of /repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Community/openSUSE_11.1_KDE4_Factory_Desktop
9 | KDE4_Factory_Extra_Apps | KDE4_Factory_Extra Apps | Yes | Yes | Index of /repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Extra-Apps/openSUSE_11.1
10 | KDE:KDE4:Factoryesktop | KDE:KDE4:Factoryesktop | Yes | Yes | Index of /repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.1

AND
Index of /repositories/KDE:/Qt44/openSUSE_11.1


19 | Packman | Packman repository (openSUSE_11.1) | Yes | Yes | Index of /pub/packman/suse/11.1

31 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.1-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes | Index of /distribution/11.1/repo/non-oss
32 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.1-Oss | Yes | Yes | Index of /distribution/11.1/repo/oss

34 | repo-update | openSUSE-11.1-Update | Yes | Yes | Index of /update/11.1

IF YOU NEED Nvidia
18 | NVIDIA Repository | NVIDIA Repository | Yes | Yes | http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.1

[zmdmw52]

Originally Posted by caf4926

@ zmdmw52

Seriously Dude, That is such as mess. And for someone who has to ask these questions - you have WAY too many repo's.

Mostly as a result of 1-click installs which add repo's automatically.

Originally Posted by caf4926

Even if you were to follow my recommendation - I suspect you are going to have all kinds of issues

Keep only these

8 | KDE4_Factory_Desktop_Community_Apps | KDE4_Factory_Desktop_Community Apps | Yes | Yes | Index of /repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Community/openSUSE_11.1_KDE4_Factory_Desktop
9 | KDE4_Factory_Extra_Apps | KDE4_Factory_Extra Apps | Yes | Yes | Index of /repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Extra-Apps/openSUSE_11.1
10 | KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop | KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop | Yes | Yes | Index of /repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.1

AND
Index of /repositories/KDE:/Qt44/openSUSE_11.1


19 | Packman | Packman repository (openSUSE_11.1) | Yes | Yes | Index of /pub/packman/suse/11.1

31 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.1-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes | Index of /distribution/11.1/repo/non-oss
32 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.1-Oss | Yes | Yes | Index of /distribution/11.1/repo/oss

34 | repo-update | openSUSE-11.1-Update | Yes | Yes | Index of /update/11.1

IF YOU NEED Nvidia
18 | NVIDIA Repository | NVIDIA Repository | Yes | Yes | http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.1

Will keep the ones you mentioned (disable the others) & follow the procedure above to try & get KDE 4.1.x.

[caf4926]

OK - I miss-understood you

You want to downgrade to 4.1 - but you consider it an upgrade. I assume this is down to problems you have had.

Therefore to roll back you need the following kde4 not the ones I quoted

Index of /repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/STABLE:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.1

Index of /repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/STABLE:/Extra-Apps/openSUSE_11.1

Index of /repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Community/openSUSE_11.1

no extra QT needed here

then just add Packman and the OSS - Update - Non-OSS - Nvidia

[zmdmw52]

Originally Posted by caf4926

OK - I miss-understood you

You want to downgrade to 4.1 - but you consider it an upgrade. I assume this is down to problems you have had.

Would like to (if possible) just re-install KDE 4.1.x (not KDE 4.2). Not sure what to call it (upgrade/downgrade), since KDE 4.x crashed nearly as soon as I logged in (after a new install of openSUSE 11.1), there was an error msg saying 'The Plasma Desktop has crashed' and all desktop icons disappeared. Tried right-clicking Desktop and manipulating few options, but did not help. Now, on trying to Login to KDE 4.x, I get an Error Message:
"Could not start kdeinit4. Check your installation".

KDE 3.5 works fine at the moment, and presently I am using that.

Originally Posted by caf4926

Therefore to roll back you need the following kde4 not the ones I quoted

Index of /repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/STABLE:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.1

Index of /repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/STABLE:/Extra-Apps/openSUSE_11.1

Index of /repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Community/openSUSE_11.1

no extra QT needed here

then just add Packman and the OSS - Update - Non-OSS - Nvidia

Ok, will give it a try later tonight.

[zmdmw52]

Tried doing the re-install procedure twice, but KDE 4.1 does not start- there is a box with Error Message "Could not start kdeiniit4startup-config".

Is there a way to remove KDE 4 completely ?

[zmdmw52]

Update

Was finally able to get back the KDE 4.1.3, as suggested in some earlier threads, after doing a search this is procedure that worked:

From yast2: (GUI)
- Disabled all repo's but the ones indicated above.
- Removed the 3 files: libkde4, kdelibs4, kdelibs4-core from YaST-Software Management

From RL 3 (Ctrl-Alt-F2):

su - (Enter 'root' here)

rpmdb --rebuilddb
zypper refresh
zypper up libkde4 kdelibs4 kdelibs4-core

After the 3 files were downloaded and installed, again did

rpmdb --rebuilddb

Then

mv /home/<username>/.kde4 .kde4old

shutdown -h now

On doing cold reboot, and trying to Login to KDE4, was able to login to a working KDE 4.1.3 Desktop.

Thank you all.

[lesserdevil]

I know it's already been said, but that's a lot of repositories. To anyone new to openSuSE who finds this:
I wouldn't trust that many repositories. Even a couple of lines of malicious code as a prank to school foolhardy installers can ruin your whole day. There's very little reason to go outside of the community repositories for any software. Just about everything I can think of can be found in the community.