I have a few repositories active: packman, kde desktop, kde community, kde playground (KDE STABLE, 11.2).
If I were to follow the guide on upgrading to 4.4, how does one do the switching system packages exactly?
Must I:
switch STABLE Desktop to Factory Desktop > Apply & do the upgrade,
then switch STABLE Community > Apply & upgrade,
and the same for Playground
ie switch one repo & upgrade at a time.
Or can I:
Switch packages to Fact:Desktop
Then switch Community & Playground
Finally switch to packman
Then hit apply & let it upgrade?
So do all the switching (in the correct order I presume) and then do all the upgrades in one go?
My repos are the usual 3 + packman, then the three KDE4 STABLE repos (Desktop, Community, Palyground) and also Mozilla and microchips repo as well, all for OS 11.2.
to your repo list. Then select this as your priority repo. This will get you up to kde 4.4. You might get a few conflicts with rpm’s from packman - choose the keep these when possible or you can re-install any affected packages after you have upgraded to 4.4.
It wasn’t too bad actually. I deleted the 3 KDE4 stable repos, disabled the rest (except packman) & added Factory Desktop & Factory Community.
Then I switched all to Desktop, then switched all to Community & applied that. Got a few dependency errors (alsa had to go, apparently, as did k3b-codecs & dialog. I had also to keep an obsolete package whose name I now can’t remember).
After that, my desktop was a bit strange - no window decorations or panels - but still working so I switched system packages to packman & applied. Added back the missing packages (alsa, k3b-codecs) and then did a general update on all packages. logout/in.
It’s working nicely now, although I did have to move my .kde4 folder & start afresh or else plasma crashed within about 2 minutes of starting.
Pretty neat actually.
Stoney Stanton’s lovely, Stoney cove in the summer with a cold beer… mmmmm
For a next time: removing the plasma* from ~/.kde4/share/config and ~/.kde4/share/apps has done the job for me the last couple of cases of plasma crashes. That would at least leave the settings for most KDE4 apps intact.
I copied the stuff I needed back in. The only thing I really care about is kmail’s configs.
Strangely, even removing .kde4 didn’t reset everything KDE: Some icons stayed the same (they’re not default either) such as the ones dolphin/kmail/kate etc uses. Panel ones did change. Couple of other bits too that I noticed in passing.
Ta though.