KDE upgrade questions. Can add yours if you want.

dalek

I plan to upgrade to KDE 3.2 from 3.1.5. I want to save the old one just in case. How do I tell it not to remove the old one? How do I tell it to remove the old one later? Something I need to do with some others to. I think it comes up and ask you just before it removes but I plan to start and go to sleep while it works on it.

I read the man file but it didn't jump out at me. I also did a search here, didn't see it there either.

I had trouble with the last upgrade, anything special on this one that I should know about? My last problem was answered in the HUGE KDE thread.

Thanks for the help and answers.

Later

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!db! · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 2:52 pm Post subject:

A few days ago, I upgraded to kde 3.2 and I have 3.1.5 still available. I actually did an 'emerge world' to get 3.2 - I let the automated process takes it course. Several days later (...) I have 3.2 up and running. So I think there is a minimal risk involved when emerging 3.2.

My question - still sort of a newbie question - how do I get rid of 3.1.5 safely?

Tii · l33t Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Posts: 733

I just did ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge kde after it came out and I still have 3.1.4 left. I would also like to get rid of it.

ecatmur · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 2:57 pm Post subject:

!db! · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 3:03 pm Post subject:

ecatmur,

dalek · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 5:53 pm Post subject:

Well I don't know why I want to save 3.1.5 really. My Konqueror don't work right anymore and nobody knows why. But I can boot into it and I can't connect to the net without Kppp which requires X to be running. I guess that will be better than nothing.

I did notice that I still have the option for the other 3.1.X stuff to. I had to redo my drives earlier to get more space. I have a / and /boot at the moment and / was at 99.9% full. I had a few KBs left.

Thanks for the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" tip though. That may come in handy. Will try without it first just to see the smoke fly.

Keep those questions going. May as well have a BIG thread while we are at it. Beats getting thrown to the desert in duplicates. No offence mods.

Now back to downloading with a 26K dial-up connection.

:cry:

Yea, it sucks. Roto-ruter comes to mind.

Later, much later. . . . . . . . . . .

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Tii · l33t Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Posts: 733

Some one in the posting list said that emerge -P kde should get rid of all but the newest version off kde. But I get:

ecatmur · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 9:10 pm Post subject:

emerge unmerge =kde-base/kde-3.1.4

Tii · l33t Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Posts: 733

That will just remove the kde package but not stuff like kdeartwork, correct? Is it safe to remove all the stuff that's here or will something break:

tommy_fila · Guru Joined: 19 Nov 2003 Posts: 450 Location: Phoenix, AZ

You can savely unmerge all of those if you don't want KDE-3.1.5 on your system anymore.
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ecatmur · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 10:46 pm Post subject:

I think after unmerging kde 3.1.5, an emerge depclean will remove those packages.

Tii · l33t Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Posts: 733

Stu_28 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Jun 2003 Posts: 129

I answered how to get rid of the 3.1 slot of KDE in the other forum yesterday:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=135165

dalek · Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 12:42 pm Post subject:

If you get a error like this.

dalek · Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 12:44 am Post subject:

I am making this post from KDE 3.2.0. I had a few kinks here and there. It was lokking for some libfam thing in /usr/local/lib when it was actually in /usr/lib. I made a quick link for where it thought it should be to where it actually was, off it went again. It took me about a day and a half to download and then about 14 hours to compile. That includes the boo boo corrections and a few head scratches.

I see a few things I want to change already but it fixed my Konqueror problem. Looks pretty cool too.

Now to get rid of the older versions. Scroll back up for that I guess.

Later

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dalek · Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 1:45 am Post subject:

Anybody know how to make Konqueror open with filemanagement profile instead of as web browser? I went into the settings and profile management screens but it still opens up as web browser.

In KDE 3.1 I did it is the properties of the link. It had "konqueror open profile filemanagement" as the execution command. That worked but not in the new KDE.

Any ideas?

Later

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kevmille · Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 2:44 am Post subject:

Upgrading to KDE 3.2 has been a big headache it seems but it is worth it. Yeah I lost Kopete and Quanta. KMail is "weird" but I love the new spell check that comes with it. There is a quick fix to Kopete so I can access it. KWallet is awesome but I do not like the idea of having my passwords available to anyone if I happen to leave my computer while compiling.

I should have done my homework before compiling KDE 3.2 to save many of these headaches.

Oh well, I did not choose Gentoo Linux because I wanted the easy way out.
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!db! · Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 7:42 pm Post subject:

I'm having some difficult in unmerging <3.2. I do have 'autoclean', but have two kde slots in /usr/kde: /usr/kde/3.1 and /usr/kde/3.2. I've tried suggested commands, but get the following replies ...

GHost_123 · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 1

#!/bin/bash

cd /var/db/pkg/
for i in `find ./ -iname *3.1.5|grep kde|sed 's/\.\/kde-base\///'|grep -v api`
do
D=`echo $i|tr -d "\-3.1.5"`
cd /usr/portage/kde-base/$D
ebuild $i.ebuild unmerge
done

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this will unmerge the 3.1.5 kde packages
it's not the best but it works