upgrading KDE

[invisibleman]

Hi i have slackware 9.1 and kde 3.1 how can i upgrade kde to the latest version? or this that only for slackware 10.

[operator]

if you are a newbie I'll suggest you to get the latest slack10.1 which already run the KDE3.3 - further, I believe it would be easir to update to kde3.4 but never done it so i cant really help you on that (just read that on google) - with regards to update from slack9.1 i did try and it is not that difficult if you run the Konstruct package that you may find on www.kde.org - by the way i'm on slack 10.1 now and i decide to keep the kde3.3 until slack10.2 or similar will come out which I bet will have the new kde3.4 already running

[mccleway]

swaret

swaret download page

I'm not sure if it is compatible with Slack 9.1 or not, but I am running it on 10.1 and it is awesome.

Once you install it just run:

swaret --upgrade -a

and sit back and watch. It will go out and upgrade all of your installed packages automatically. I just did it and went from Kde3.3 to 3.4 with that simple command. Works great for me so far.

Hope this helps.[/code]

[operator]

thanx a lot - didnt try that but i'll give it a go as soon as possible and let you know how it goes - by the way i upgraded to slack10.1 too so i might be lucky and get everything to work fine