UPDATE (22-07-2010 11am) : As i mentioned below, that factory repo will be populated with KDE4.5 later, and it happened. Factory now have KDE4.5 instead of KDE4.4.5. So with this post you will be updated to KDE4.5. ATM there are no repos for KDE4.4.5, this post will be updated time to time for latest updates related to KDE4.5 and KDE4.4.5. Just follow step 1 and 2 and ignore the rest of the post contents.

Update (13-08-2010 10am) : KDE4.5.0 is released, after reading this post if you found that this a bit complicated to follow, i had written another post for KDE4.5.0 installation, which is neat, clean and very easy to follow. Here you can find it.

openSUSE 11.3 by default have KDE4.4.4 desktop for KDE. As we know, KDE4.4.5 is released and even KDE4.5 rc2 also has been released some time ago. KDE4.4.5 is very stable and many bugs have been fixed since KDE4.4.4. For this upgrading process we will use factory repos for 11.3, which currently have KDE4.4.5, and later KDE4.5 will be pushed to it(i guess).

Lets start the fun.

1- Open YaST and go to software repositories and add the following repos with any name you want.

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Distro:/Factory/openSUSE_11.3/

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/openSUSE_11.3_KDE_Distro_Factory/

If you are also using playground repo, add this repo, if not just leave this repo and go to step 2.

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Unstable:/Playground/openSUSE_11.3_KDE_Distro_Factory/

After adding repos, close software repositories module.

2-Two type of upgrades you can do from here.

a- Now open Software management in YaST, and choose Repositories tab. Select the newly added repo and click on ‘switch system packages‘.  See the image below.

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Do the same for community and playground(if have) repo, and click Accept.

b- If you wana do it the terminal way, here you go. Open terminal, and become root by typing su – and enter your root password. Now type:

zypper dup

This will upgrade the whole system wide packages. If you don’t want that, refer to step a above.

3- After upgrading, reboot your PC and you are there with KDE4.4 latest packages.

Arif

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