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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 05 Jan 2003 11:37 am, Adrian Midgley wrote: > > Now I regard one of my areas of significant ignorance to be how one gets > the latest version of Kmail running without replacing the whole of KDE - or > even if this is possible or desirable. It is possible, I upgraded from KDE2 to the early 3beta using RPM's from a LinuxFormat DVD. Numerous false starts were needed as the core parts of KDE are inter-dependent and need to be installed TOGETHER, i.e. all one the one and same command line to rpm -i. That can get confusing. KDE3 then shows itself when you login next. (Although it's a good idea to back up your ~/.kde directory before installing the RPM's and logout as soon as the RPM's are installed.) I had numerous problems upgrading as so many config files had been re-designed and I've since found it easier to wait for a distro to include the latest version of KDE or Gnome. (It helps to buy a 60Gb second drive too, now I can install 9 or more distros at a time and only use the ones that are easiest to configure! Currently installed: Mandrake 8.2, Suse 7.1, Lycoris, Slackware8, Debian3, Mandrake9. Soon to be installed: RedHat 7.2, possibly Sorcerer or Turbo. Only ones in regular use: Slackware8 and Mandrake9. > > I'm also unclear if there is an easy way to download and install KDE in a > simple safe and easy fashion - it seems to be available as many packages > with no overall installation system. Doing it from tarballs is not something I'd attempt. BTW. This is my first email session using the UKFSN ISP as mentioned on the list: http://www.dclug.org.uk/archive/msg00395.html After months of struggling with Tiscali (sometimes taking >30 minutes to get online!!!), I'm going to use UKFSN now for 0845 access, especially when Tiscali are being obtuse. - -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.codehelp.co.uk http://www.dclug.org.uk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+GH42iAEJSii8s+MRAhMrAKCFQtVYjYpVql0+ovLUJJDUMivKuACeMENB NIpc+DskcKeABc+pUgab448= =4++A -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.