From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 7 17:18:43 2008 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 8E31F1065678 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2008 17:18:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mdh_lists@yahoo.com) Received: from web56807.mail.re3.yahoo.com (web56807.mail.re3.yahoo.com [66.196.97.81]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 371AC8FC21 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2008 17:18:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mdh_lists@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 27782 invoked by uid 60001); 7 Nov 2008 17:18:42 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=INWZM/0BqUN2FLWnb3v71cRS4zmpXrld+4FW/Gi/N3S/qY+cdlztV01oEsxiTbyUpguumomHI53e/UTlMenG7zM2NgYK3SanhwlBsFPzShoeXsg0kwZ8SZW1oy5sf60WAFmGj2Lrgh4tB/497ODRNPULTYHdfvCjBDE63Bj6fB4=; X-YMail-OSG: DlbXlhIVM1mLFoaaY505IePE9vXgB_nWXeuXflX7_dETvfDLUxG4QRe9UXdsesm1fPUSlijH9b1VIlXlMlrWxlTJUo4.cWW9FhNGJEWaunbcEuMlZtNf3GvpyXtDHwKR9d4fbDnrVd1iJJFxCA52fhIIdA-- Received: from [71.61.220.126] by web56807.mail.re3.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:18:42 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.260.1 Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 09:18:42 -0800 (PST) From: mdh To: Andrew Falanga In-Reply-To: <340a29540811070649r503324ek29a42c23f67d8be5@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <529605.26842.qm@web56807.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to upgrade to KDE4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: mdh_lists@yahoo.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:18:43 -0000 --- On Fri, 11/7/08, Andrew Falanga wrote: > From: Andrew Falanga > Subject: Re: How to upgrade to KDE4 > To: "RW" > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Friday, November 7, 2008, 9:49 AM > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:26 PM, RW > wrote: > > On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:52:06 -0800 > > af300wsm@gmail.com wrote: > > the only > >> thing that updated was the meta-port (I did a > portupgrade -r too). > > > > Aside from the fact that there are separate kde > meta-ports, > > portupgrade -r kde... updates the metaport and > everything that depends > > on the metaport, not everything the metaport depends > on. > > Thanks for the clarification. I think I had things > backwards. > > Also, as I'd like to go to KDE 4, should I do a make > deinstall in > kdebase, or perhaps pkg_delete for the kde packages before > installing? > I know that the first respondent said the two versions > could be run > in tandem, and while I've got plenty of disk space for > this, it also > seems quite error prone. What would be the recommended > course? KDE3 and KDE4 co-habitate just fine. You'll likely need KDE3 installed for some apps which don't use KDE4 libs yet. I am pretty sure ktorrent is what installed kde3 on my system when I upgraded recently. There are plenty of others, though. KDE4 installs under /usr/local/kde4, while KDE3 installs under /usr/local at this time (assuming you haven't changed port bases yourself.) Because of this, you'll likely want to remember to add /usr/local/kde4/{bin,sbin} to your shell search paths, and remember to use kdm from KDE4 as your login manager (this tricked me at first, and I was wondering for a bit why I was still getting a KDE3 login manager until I realized that KDE4 went under /usr/local/kde4/). I would not say that it is error prone at all. Everything has, so far, worked out of the box just fine save a couple of KDE4 bugs I've tweaked, none of which are bad enough to prevent me from working normally in KDE4 or to make me want to dump KDE4. - mdh