Upgrading to KDE 3.5 on SuSE Linux
For SuSE users, this upgrade is pretty painless, unless you are a dialup user. Updating to KDE 3.5 from 3.4 will require a good 500MB download, so dialup users need not apply. That said, lets upgrade KDE.
The first step is to be sure you have a nice selection of repositories setup in your YaST Installation Sources. Technically, only the Supplementary KDE Source is required, but I suggest adding them all in order to get the most functionality. Once you have the additional YaST Installation Sources added, you are ready to begin the upgrade process.
- Start YaST -> Software Manager (*Install and Remove Software for 9.3 and before)
- Change the Filter drop-down menu from ‘Search’ to ‘Selections’
- For both the “KDE Desktop Environment” and “All of KDE” selections, right click in the right hand pane and select ‘All in this list’ - > ‘Update if newer version available’
- Click ‘Accept’ and wait for the installation to finish.
Just last night I upgraded my Suse KDE to the latest version, didnt realized that it was almost 500 MB of files. But it was smoothly done!
Thank you very much for your help. I am a newbite of suse Linux and I have just set up successful KDE 3.5 to my laptop.