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KDE 3.5

July 30, 2006

Finally, I was able to upgrade the stock KDE installed with Slackware from 3.4 to 3.5!

I just downloaded all KDE-related packages (about 190MB) from linuxpackages.net and did an updatepkg for all of them. X should not be loaded at the time. The upgrade took about 5 minutes.

There’s not much change between the two versions, except that when you look at the splash screen it shows that the version number is different. My settings are still in effect, and the menu remains as is.

What’s next? Kernel update?

Posted by ronnie at 10:17 am | permalink | Add comment

Gentoo Results

I tried installing Gentoo Linux a few days ago, and this is what happened.

During install, I was adamant to do the stage 1 – or the ‘compile-everything-from-source’ — option, since I do not have the time to download everything at the moment. I settled for stage 3 — files existing within the distribution CD are the ones used to set up the system.

The files that were installed from the CD went without a hitch. However, when time came to get packages from the ‘net, I encountered an error.

Maybe it was related to a package that was being downloaded at the moment (it might have failed checksum verification), but nevertheless the installation was stopped and there was no option to recover from the error.

I’m back to slackware on my machine right now. I’ll just try the install process at some other time.

Posted by ronnie at 10:02 am | permalink | Add comment