Re: KDE Upgrade

From: Mostafa Z. Afgani (mostafa.afgani_at_world.iu-bremen.de)
Date: 11/22/04

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    Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 18:13:31 +0100
To: jh@333.org, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>

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    Jim Higson wrote:
    | On Monday 22 Nov 2004 16:35, Ben Arnold wrote:
    |
    |>Is there a quick and simple way of upgrading KDE to a newer version
    without
    |>downloading all the separate packages?
    |
    |
    | There is a quick (depending on net connection) and simple way, which
    involves
    | downloading the packages, albeit automatically - use apt or yum to get it.
    |
    |
    |>Maybe a KDE-CD of some sort?
    |
    |
    | Not really, not packaged for Fedora anyway.
    | Of course, anyone with net access could burn the packages on a CD for you
    | (plus whatever else you need to update to run it) without too many
    problems.
    |
    If you have a fast net connection try yum in conjunction with:

    http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/

    Best,
    - -M
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