Howto Update KDE to Latest Version

For starters, The howto is here: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/11504.html
Nice pictures and everything you need.


Background>
Last evening I decided to update Kde & misc from these sites:
ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/suse/x86_64/supplem....3/yast-source/
ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/suse/x86_64/supplem....3/yast-source/.
Followed the howto & expected to come back 2.15 hours later & have a new KDE. Came back 2 hours later & still had 1 1/2 hour to go = Sloooowww, I guess because it's a hot update & everyone wants to update from the same site. Aborted & went looking for a good mirror!

The Novell/Suse mirrors are here:
http://www.novell.com/products/linuxprofes...nt_mirrors.html
Pick one that is relatatively close to you & that says it's complete! If it doesn't rock & roll, pick another.

I chose http://ops.tamu.edu/suse/x86_64/supplement....3/yast-source/ (I'm in Arkansas; site is in Texas) & set up CHANGE SOURCE OF INSTALLATION:
http
ops.tamu.edu
suse/x86_64/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.3/yast-source/
and:
http
ops.tamu.edu
suse/x86_64/supplementary/misc/update_for_9.3/yast-source/.

Turned the others off & moved these two up to top.

What had been a 2.5 hour task that was to take much longer became a 1:15 hour task & lightening fast download.

Note: when I did the update, I also needed my DVD to fill 3 dependencies.

Plus, everything seems to work flawlessly = no gottchas so far. Don't forget to set CHANGE SOURCE OF INSTALLATION back to DVD or CD.

Hope this helps someone.

Have fun