KDE Upgrade to 3.0

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Author: Kevin Brown
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Subject: KDE Upgrade to 3.0
> I have been think about doing exactly this but now I want to watch how you
> get it done. Why be the guinea pig when there already is one? ;^)
>
> 1. How did you install the KDE 2.2.2?
>
> 2. DON'T use "--nodeps"! At least I won't ever again. An upgrade is not
> important enough to end up with a broken system. That is what happened to
> me, anyway. Just MHO.
>
> 3. Have you considered installing from the source? Sometimes the RPMs were
> created or whatever (I don't fully understand them yet) on a system that
> doesn't match your own in some way. I don't know how many RPMs that were
> "for RedHat 7.2" I have attempted and failed but compiling the source worked
> fine once I had all the dependencies worked out.
>
> 4. Where did you get the RPMs? I might go try it too, even though you are
> the first "official" guinea pig.


Prebuilt for x86:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS/

src.rpm:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/SRPMS/SRPMS/

Just a warning, a src.rpm may have more dependencies then the final rpms it will
be making since it will need devel rpms to do the building.

Rawhide is, I believe, similar to Debians unstable or testing version.