Upgrading KDE from 3.1.4 to 3.2.2
Joshua Lewis
jmlewis at dslextreme.com
Thu May 27 15:12:42 PDT 2004
After much time and effort, I have a working FBSD 4.9 system with
everything I need for a working desktop system. However, after much
research I decided I want to install KDE 3.2.2. My options are upgrade KDE
or reinstall my whole system. I do not wish to do the latter.
I found some instructions on upgrading KDE on the freebsd.kde.org website.
However, the two options given are use portupgrade to upgrade (as far as I
can tell this command is only in FBSD 5.1 and I have 4.9) or uninstall KDE
and reinstall. I updated my ports using CVSup and tried to do a make
install clean however it tried to install 3.1.4. I am assuming I simply
upgraded myself back to the same stuff that I installed during the
installation of FBSD. Second is to uninstall KDE and then do a make
install clean. Again, I will still only get to 3.1.4 as far as I can tell
that is what is in my /usr/ports/x11/kde3 directory.
I have located and downloaded a 3.2.2 tarball (is this a package file? The
site says something about a package site. Can anyone clear up what that is
and where I am supposed to stick that url in) from rabarber.fruitsalad.org
but have no clue where to go from here.
My questions here are a few parts. One by looking at my CVSup file bellow
can you tell me what the heck I did? Are my ports, src, docs and what ever
that third option is up to date or are they only up to 4.9 ports, src,
docs, and cvsroot-all (what is cvsroot-all)
<snip>
*default host=cvsup5.us.FreeBSD.org
*default base=/usr
*default prefix=/usr/ports
*default release=cvs
*default delete use-rel-suffix
# If your network link is a T1 or faster, comment out the following line.
*default compress
## Main Source Tree.
#
# The easiest way to get the main source tree is to use the "src-all"
# mega-collection. It includes all of the individual "src-*" collections.
src-all
<snip>
## Ports Collection.
#
# The easiest way to get the ports tree is to use the "ports-all"
# mega-collection. It includes all of the individual "ports-*"
# collections,
ports-all
<snip>
## Documentation
#
# The easiest way to get the doc tree is to use the "doc-all"
# mega-collection. It includes all of the individual "doc-*"
# collections,
doc-all
<snip>
## CVSROOT control files
#
# This is to get the control files that cvs(1) needs and the commit logs.
cvsroot-all
<snip>
Two can I use CVSup to update my system to KDE 3.2.2 or update my system
and run a pkg_add or something.
Last but not lease if I just have to remove KDE and reinstall. HOW? I do
not know how to remove KDE. I have tried pkg_delete but must in the wrong
directory when running the pkg_delete command. I have read the handbook
and that did not help. I googled with no decent results. The handbook has
helped in the past but not here.
Thank you,
Joshua Lewis
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