After setting up 11.4 distro to update to KDE4.8..no update.

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#1

I have set up my 11.4 instance to update to the latest KDE 4.8.
After running zypper dup I saw a great deal of KDE apps being updated,
but afterwards all applications state that KDE is still at 4.6 release 6.
If I run zypper dup now, I get nothing to do.

List of repos:

| Alias | Name | Enabled |

Refresh
—±----------------------------±----------------------------±--------±-------
1 | KDE4.8 | KDE4.8 | Yes |
Yes
2 | KDE48Extras | KDE48Extras | Yes |
Yes
3 | Novell_Client2_SP2 | Novell Client2 SP2 | Yes |
Yes
4 | Packman_Essentials | Packman_Essentials | Yes |
Yes
5 | Packman_Multi | Packman_Multi | Yes |
Yes
6 | Updates_for_openSUSE_11.4-0 | Updates for openSUSE 11.4-0 | Yes |
Yes
7 | google-chrome | google-chrome | Yes |
Yes
8 | nVidia | nVidia | Yes |
Yes
9 | openSUSE-11.4-Non-Oss | openSUSE-11.4-Non-Oss | Yes |
Yes
10 | openSUSE-11.4-Source | openSUSE-11.4-Source | Yes |
Yes
11 | openSUSE-11.4-Debug_ | openSUSE-11.4-Debug | Yes |
Yes
12 | opsen_suse_11.4_OSS | openSUSE-11.4-Oss | Yes |
Yes

#2

This I solved it. Needed to disable the OSS repo.

#3 

zypper dup --from KDE4.8
#4

On 01/31/2012 10:52 PM, GofBorg wrote:
> all applications state that KDE is still at 4.6 release 6.
> If I run zypper dup now, I get nothing to do.

i do not know: is there a how-to move to KDE4.8?
if so, did you follow it?

i wonder: did it tell you to ‘switch vendor’ or change the priorities of
any repos?

again: i do not know…i have not considered moving off of 4.6.0, so i
have not looked for a how to to either 4.7 or 4.8 . . .

but, you are the second person i read this hour with the “i’m still on
the old KDE” and i have to wonder if the how-to is so broken it can’t be
followed consistently!!

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#5

The ‘zypper dup --from KDE4.8’ does the same as the vendor switch AFAIK

#6

On 2012-01-31 22:58, GofBorg wrote:
> This I solved it. Needed to disable the OSS repo.

Expect big trouble.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

#7

> Expect big trouble.

Seems to work ok.

#8

> i do not know: is there a how-to move to KDE4.8?
> if so, did you follow it?

I used this one:

http://anl4u.com/blog/install-kde-4-8-in-opensuse/

It’s not that it’s broken just missing some details.
I often run newer KDE on old OS until OS ends up as unsupported.
If it’s stable and works I don’t care, but I do like to keep abreast
of what is going on with the newer KDE versions. Seems okay, the new
activity manager is handy and looks like the annoying problem with
the panel not allowing windows to cover it has been fixed…that’s worth
the update in itself. : )

#9

On 2012-01-31 23:58, GofBorg wrote:
>> Expect big trouble.
>
> Seems to work ok.

For the time being >:-)

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

#10

On 02/01/2012 12:05 AM, GofBorg wrote:
> I used this one:
> http://anl4u.com/blog/install-kde-4-8-in-opensuse/

i guess that is as good as any…

i think i’ll use the one i found taped to the wall in the
laundromat…it said something different,


something like	"zypper dup --from KDE48"
or was it	"zypper up --from KDE4.8" ?
or		 "zypper dup -D --from KDE48main12.1" ?
or		 "sudo zypper dup" ?
or 		 what???

but it beats me…

i’ve looked and i can’t find the one official, tested, approved,
recommended and supported how-to install KDE4.8 on either 11.4 or 12.1,

i did find what seems to be the way for Tumbleweed…

i think i will wait until i see the how-to in one of these places:
http://tinyurl.com/4h9ce6u
http://tinyurl.com/6h3kh7q
http://tinyurl.com/oSdocs

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#11

I dunno about ‘official method’, not sure there ever is one.
In the past I’ve always just done a homebrew which is what I did this time.
Just added the KDE 4.8 repo under the OS11.4 repo, disabled the OSS repo and
zypper dup. I do updates manually. As has been stated there may be
minefields later but if there are I’ll make the jump to 12.2 when it hits or
work around the issue. Should be able to re-enable OSS repo if I need
something outside of KDE.

#12

One final thing, Kmail → Kmail2 is a disaster.
You’ll likely lose all contacts, email(unless you are using IMAP) etc unless
you really know what you are doing. The migration utility…doesn’t. I
stopped using Kontact a long while ago after the first upgrade that dumped
all my contacts. I do still use the kmail interface from time to time which
is how I ran into the kmail->kmail 2 morass. Google it before you update to
4.8 if that’s what you decide to do.

#13

On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:54:41 +0530, GofBorg
<GofBorg@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

> I dunno about ‘official method’, not sure there ever is one.
> In the past I’ve always just done a homebrew which is what I did this
> time.
> Just added the KDE 4.8 repo under the OS11.4 repo, disabled the OSS repo
> and
> zypper dup. I do updates manually. As has been stated there may be
> minefields later but if there are I’ll make the jump to 12.2 when it
> hits or
> work around the issue. Should be able to re-enable OSS repo if I need
> something outside of KDE.

i never had to disable OSS; just doing “zypper dup --from <KDE 4.8>”, or
the yast equivalent “switch packages to this repo.”

–
phani.

#14

> i never had to disable OSS; just doing “zypper dup --from <KDE 4.8>”, or
> the yast equivalent “switch packages to this repo.”

Yes. I was not aware of the --from flags at the time.