Title: HowTo: upgrading KDE to 3.4
Description: Upgrading KDE


These are the instructions to upgrade Suse 9.1 or 8.2,9.0 and 9.2 default KDE to KDE 3.4

Another guide can be found at the offical novell website
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/11504.html∞ and replace the 9.2 with 8.2,9.0,9.1

The ftp server is ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/∞
and pick which version you have the versions that are offically supported are 8.2,9.0,9.1,9.2.

The offical ftp servers are as followed contain the base updates
8.2-ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_8.2/
9.0-ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.0/
9.1-ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.1/
9.2-ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.2/




To do this you have to follow these steps

First Launch YaST
Select "Change Source of Installation"
Select "FTP" or "HTTP" from the "Add" pop-up
And fill in the name of the server the ones that I recommend are the ones above as these are the offical servers that contain the offical KDE 3.4 rpms.

Server Name: mirror.mcs.anl.gov (*)
Directory on Server:
/pub/suse.com/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.1/yast-source
Confirm / OK
Click "Finish"



Select YaST Install and Remove Software.
Select "Package Groups" from the "Filter" pop-up.
Choose the "zzz all" group (last in the list)
From the Package menu select:
"All in this List -> Update if newer version available".
Select "Search" from the "Filter" pop-up.
Search for "cyrus-sasl"
From the list of packages found, select for installation
all except cyrus-sasl-devel.


Once the installation has completed, log out and back in.

When logged in you will be greated with the KDE 3.4 startup screen.

Congratioulations you have just upgraded to KDE 3.4.

Addenda by a1phaomega

• There is a bug currently in arts that means that sound notifications may not work. You can either rebuild yourself the arts rpms from source or ask on the forums for a set of updated rpm's.

Sources:

Credits:

Comments and Suggestions:
http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/index.php?showtopic=13800∞