kde-redhat

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sun Jun 22 18:02:10 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 11:55 -0600, kwhiskerz wrote:
> I have enabled kde-unstable and kde-unstable-all. This allows me to
> use kde4.0.83, a terrific improvement over kde4.0.5.
> 
> 
> There are bugs, so be forewarned: kde-redhat is presently providing
> beta releases (kde4.0.5 can at best be considered an alpha). And, yes,
> there are some conflicts. I found that I had to uninstall
> kipi-plugins, digikam, libkipi and libkdcraw. I prefer digikam to
> gwenview and the kipi-plugins are nicer to use than ImageMagick, but I
> will likely only have to put up with this minor inconvenience until
> the end of July, when kde4.1 is officially released.
> 
> 
> This will get your system upgraded:
> sudo yum --enablerepo=kde-unstable --enablerepo=kde-unstable-all
> update
> 
> 
> Once kde has arrived at a more robust and stout level of maturity, I
> will likely discontinue use of kde-redhat. I cannot predict how rocky
> the road back to the official fedora repositories will be, but I
> expect that it will be a very smooth one, as the version numbering and
> kde-sig should take care of that very competently.

OK thanks. That's pretty much what I wanted to know.

poc




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