From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 7 05:27:04 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03B2F106566B for ; Fri, 7 Aug 2009 05:27:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [64.146.239.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCBC58FC16 for ; Fri, 7 Aug 2009 05:27:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kstewart2.owt.com (kstewart2.owt.com [64.146.237.228]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.owt.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n775R1el014750; Thu, 6 Aug 2009 22:27:01 -0700 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=owt.com; s=default; t=1249622822; bh=s2OjLRfAnXPXbgL69GheNI+V8XxEAEUfDuaGvPgGUv4=; h=From:To:Subject:Date:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-Id; b=mR2z1p19JhVQR sC7GEDosiVDJNHFuG6oSpNqOzgJT+XPwds5lB0BEx7QmXmf+9YL7pAyKOc/qJN+kQ4+ FM+y9hh6UQFWklRogusryBMUzSYW2U9KXDlU5x4pppYKzdT26kEeUzXb1bfDsN5PlhH 7INqsFOzyuCgd8zOfS6pRKaw= From: Kent Stewart To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Paul Schmehl Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 22:27:00 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200908062227.00953.kstewart@owt.com> Cc: Subject: Re: KDE3 --> KDE4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:27:04 -0000 On Thursday 06 August 2009 05:53:05 pm Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On August 6, 2009 7:15:18 PM -0500 Andrew Gould > > wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Paul Schmehl > > > > wrote: > >> Can someone who has already done this upgrade suggest the best way to = go > >> about it? =C2=A0Do I need to completely uninstall kde3 first? =C2=A0Is= there an > >> upgrade path that's not fraught with gotchas? > >> > >> -- > >> Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst > > > > Unless things have changed very recently, KDE4 is in its own directory > > folder. This may imply that KDE3 and KDE4 can coexist. > > > > As always, YMMV. > > I was looking for something a little more definitive, like I upgraded like > this, and here's the problems I ran into. > > I don't want to run KDE3 and KDE4 side by side. I want to migrate from > the former to the latter. There are features that haven't made it to kde4 such as koffice. I added=20 OpenOffice but that can be a long compile. One of my favorite sites crashes= =20 konqueror, which wasn't a problem on kde3. I left my slower machine, which = I=20 use for e-mail, and web browsing running kde3 and play with kde4 on my syst= em=20 that can do a portupgrade -pfR kde4 in 7 hours and build OO in less than 2= =20 hours. It is running kde-4.3 now and it has been recursively rebuilt. The=20 browser crash is still there. I can use the packages of common ports to=20 update the slower machine. They are on a 4-port kvm and it is too easy to=20 simply use the machine that works the best. Kent =2D-=20 Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html