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Friday, January 20th 2006, 3:30am

Konstruct or system upgrade

Hi,

I am using SuSE 10.0 and I have seen Konstruct on the KDE website. I notice that construct uses Tar.gz files to update/install KDE. I know that this provides a better build for the system your working on, but I got several questions before I want to try it out.

I am currently running a quite recent version (although an alpa I think) of KDE 3.5. I hope I can solve some problems I have, plus achieve a faster system via Konstruct, is this so? and if, then how does this "konstruct KDE" co-operate with SuSE linking and such? Will it delete the SuSE KDE? if so, does this do any harm?

In other words I want to hear word of someone that tried to do this and his/her experiances. YaST System Upgrade is getting a bit anoying, because it always breaks something. This time it broke my Xine :( .

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Friday, January 20th 2006, 12:04pm

RE: Konstruct or system upgrade

Read konstruct/README

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By default "Konstruct" installs to ~/kde3.5/ which means you don't have to
possess root privileges or risk to damage your system or affect another KDE."

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Friday, January 20th 2006, 12:25pm

hehe.. didn't notice that part...

but I prefer it to "overwrite" my current kde version, my diskspace is not that big... just wanna know the effects before I do. or is it possible to change it to /usr or something?

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Friday, January 20th 2006, 8:16pm

NEVER overwrite existing *working* kde.

It is only a $ENV that points to the build you need to use, so USE it.

Last thing you want is to overwrite a good KDE.

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Friday, January 20th 2006, 9:27pm

ok, i'll wave the idea then... thanks