root wrote: > Hi all, > > I just installed FEDORA to drive away from Microsoft and I nearly > completely new to UNIX/Linux/Fedora, but I have a lot of experience > (working in IT) with VMS, OpenVMS and W2K, WNT... > > First of al I configured YUM to use download servers nearby and with YUM > UPGRADE a upgraded my fedora to 2.6.8.-1.521. I accepted everyting so i > think my whole system is upgraded. > > I wanted to install some software (KNetStats, > http://knetstats.sourceforge.net/) that requires QT 3.3 and I think I > know that this comes together with KDE 3.3. that is based on it (am I > right?). > > I have some questions about QT and KDE related to upgrading. > <snip> > > 2. I wanted to upgrade KDE to KDE 3 (which is announced) but end up in a > internet-folder (ftp://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/2/RPMS.stable/) > Not the faintest idea which of all these files I have to download and > how to install them. > > 3. Is there a possibility to configure YUM in a way that I can use it to > upgrade my KDE-environment to 3.3? > Put the following in your yum.conf ======================= [kde-redhat-fedora-stable-$releasever] name=kde-redhat.org (fedora-stable) baseurl=ftp://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/fedora/$releasever/stable [kde-redhat-fedora-stable-all] name=kde-redhat.org (fedora-stable) baseurl=ftp://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/fedora/all/stable [kde-redhat-kde-stable-$releasever] name=kde-redhat.org (kde-stable) baseurl=ftp://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/$releasever/stable [kde-redhat-kde-stable-all] name=kde-redhat.org (kde-stable) baseurl=ftp://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/all/stable [kde-redhat-fedora-stable] name=kde-redhat.org (fedora-stable) baseurl=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/fedora/$releasever/stable [kde-redhat-fedora-stable-all] name=kde-redhat.org (fedora-stable) baseurl=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/fedora/all/stable [kde-redhat-kde-stable] name=kde-redhat.org (kde-stable) baseurl=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/$releasever/stable [kde-redhat-kde-stable-all] name=kde-redhat.org (kde-stable) baseurl=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/all/stable ===================== Having so many sources might be overkill, but it works for me, YMMV. Sharon.
