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It can be somewhat correct.

Depending on your needs, you´ll need to donwload a lot of packages.

Locales are not all obligatory. Some items ara also optional, but if you have one of it installed, dependancies may lead to dozens of updates to run (not only the ones listed!).

You may start by downloading the basic packages (kdebase, kdelibs, arts, qt, depending on the version you have) and watching to the dependancies it complains for upgrading.

I don´t know much about Suse, but is there no apt-like tool? That could ease your life.

I'm not quite sure of what i am saying, so I will antecipatedly apologize for any insane thing.

It's been a very long since my last experience with Conectiva Linux, that was armed with Synaptic
(www.howtoforge.com/apt_for_rpm)
In some distant plays with Redhat, I remember to have installed apt, also.
There is, undoubtly apt4rpm. I heard about "Yum", but I don't know what is it.

If you have apt in your Suse, an rpm based distro, it must know how to talk to your rpm database.

The challenge now is to find the correct configuration to get the needed packages from the right place.
Here I will be of no much help, since my lazyness makes me to live with my Mandriva / urpmi (argh) and I am not used to apt.

But even by a manual upgrade, you can still try downloading the base packages (as I said before) and listen carefully to the complains. If you're a bit lucky, it will work with no much effort.

The dependancies are the hell. God bless the man who dealed apt-like behaviour (and that the devil take the one that made rpm so loose)!

It would be nice if it was that simple.

I guess apt hopes to see a file names "pkglist", just listing the contents of its rpms. this must be in the same directory of your new install location (I think it is the same as "hdlist" in my Mandriva).
This file must exist in an apt-ready locations, and kde mirrors seem not to be among them.


I suggest you, again, trying to download the main packages and manually installing it.
If it gives you lots of dependancy errors, try (to find) the easy way, again.

After all, if your disk space and network bandwidth is not a serious concern, go downloading the remaining packages while you try to install the first ones. Just priorize kdebase, kdelibs, arts, qt, and so on till the last file. If everithing work fine, just stop.
If you plan no developing, avoid devel packages. If you want no games ou toys or pim...