Tim,
Jaunty comes out in about 2 weeks now, and I'm not sure what the process is going to be for us 3.5 users. What is involved for us in the upgrade. I don't currently have KDE4 installed. When I upgrade will it get installed or does it stay away. Do I have to edit my sources.list file, or does it automatically get pointed to the 3.5 jaunty repo?
Can you tell us what to expect?
Thanks,
Michael
Hi Michael,
The upgrade should go very smoothly. All you need to do is manually add the Jaunty lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list file and run apt-get update before executing the main upgrade. Be sure to keep the KDE3.5 Intrepid lines in your sources.list file as well.
If you don't have KDE4 installed on your machine now, it will stay away. If you have both KDE3.5 and KDE4 installed, both will be upgraded without problems.
I'll see what I can do to get some kind of upgrade script running to automate that sources.list change (no promises, as I have no experience in that area yet).
I have a machine running Jaunty here under KDE3.5 with KDE4.2 alongside with no real issues.
Of course, going from Hardy to Jaunty is a completely different story, and is not recommended at all.
Tim
Michael Hirsch wrote:
Tim,
Jaunty comes out in about 2 weeks now, and I'm not sure what the process is going to be for us 3.5 users. What is involved for us in the upgrade. I don't currently have KDE4 installed. When I upgrade will it get installed or does it stay away. Do I have to edit my sources.list file, or does it automatically get pointed to the 3.5 jaunty repo?
Can you tell us what to expect?
Thanks,
Michael
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Timothy Pearson kb9vqf@pearsoncomputing.net wrote:
Hi Michael,
The upgrade should go very smoothly. All you need to do is manually add the Jaunty lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list file and run apt-get update before executing the main upgrade. Be sure to keep the KDE3.5 Intrepid lines in your sources.list file as well.
That sounds great. Thanks.
I have a machine running Jaunty here under KDE3.5 with KDE4.2 alongside with no real issues.
So the can now coexist well! That was the point of the move to /opt/kde3, right? But I gather I'd have to completely reconfigure my kde settings. Since everything is configured in .kde3, I'll need to redo my kmail accounts, etc.
I can live with that. It sounds like kde4.2 is getting good enough to be usable.
Are there any gotchas I need to be aware of to try having both KDEs installed?
Michael
So the can now coexist well! That was the point of the move to /opt/kde3, right? But I gather I'd have to completely reconfigure my kde settings. Since everything is configured in .kde3, I'll need to redo my kmail accounts, etc.
I can live with that. It sounds like kde4.2 is getting good enough to be usable.
Well, you could copy .kde3 to .kde, then install KDE4.2. From that point on, the settings will be different from KDE3 to KDE4, but they will have started at the same place.
Are there any gotchas I need to be aware of to try having both KDEs installed?
Michael
Only one--you can't have kubuntu-default-settings-kde3 and kubuntu-default-settings installed at the same time. I am working to fix this.
Tim
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