can in install KDE in my fedora core 5 ??? please help

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ravifrequent

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Saturday, August 5th 2006, 9:50am

can in install KDE in my fedora core 5 ??? please help

hi,

i recently installed fedora core 5 in my pc, but it has only gnome in it. it has kernal 2.6.15-1.2054.

are there any distributors of KDE cdrom in India ?

if i buy latest version of kde cdrom, will i be able to use KDE instead of gnome ??? i dont like gnome, i want to have KDE in my fedora. are there any minimum requirements for using KDE ?

please help

thanks

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technoshaun

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Location: Houston Area, TX

Occupation: IT

Sunday, August 6th 2006, 2:52am

RE: can in install KDE in my fedora core 5 ??? please help

Short answer is YES.

How to do it is another issue. Assuming you are using YUM and have yumex installed its rather easy.

You will need to first update the Fedora Core 5 you have. The latest kernel in fedora is 2.6.17-1.2157_fc5.

Once you are done there create as root a file called kde.repo in the /etc/yum.repos.d directory. Since you are still using gnome use gedit to create the file. Simply cut and paste the following into gedit:

# kde.repo, v2.0

[kde]
name=kde
mirrorlist=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/fedora/mirrors-stable
gpgkey=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/kde-redhat.RPM-GPG-KEY
#gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-kde-redhat
enabled=1

[kde-all]
name=kde-all
mirrorlist=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/all/stable/mirrors
gpgkey=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/kde-redhat.RPM-GPG-KEY
#gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-kde-redhat
enabled=1

# NOTE: enable/disable *both* testing/testing-all together; requires/depends on kde/kde-all repo(s)
[kde-testing]
name=kde-testing
mirrorlist=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/fedora/mirrors-testing
gpgkey=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/kde-redhat.RPM-GPG-KEY
#gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-kde-redhat
enabled=1

[kde-testing-all]
name=kde-testing-all
mirrorlist=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/all/testing/mirrors
gpgkey=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/kde-redhat.RPM-GPG-KEY
#gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-kde-redhat
enabled=1

# NOTE: enable/disable *both* unstable,unstable-all together; requires/depends-on testing repo(s)
[kde-unstable]
name=kde-unstable
mirrorlist=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/fedora/mirrors-unstable
gpgkey=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/kde-redhat.RPM-GPG-KEY
#gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-kde-redhat
enabled=0

[kde-unstable-all]
name=kde-redhat-unstable-all
mirrorlist=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/all/unstable/mirrors
gpgkey=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/kde-redhat.RPM-GPG-KEY
#gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-kde-redhat
enabled=0

Once you save the file you can run yumex and in the groups select KDE and install the 3.5.4 RPM files.

I am still working issues on my switch over from Gnome to KDE in FC5 myself but I am digging into the system. I most likely will be writing a howto on this topic soon.

--Shaun

It isn't about it being free, rather its about the freedom it brings.

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