Install KDE 4.8 in openSUSE
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- Posted on : 30 Jan, 2012
KDE 4.8 is out now, and most of the users(KDE fans) might love to give this new version a try(i am one of them). I have upgraded and proudly can say, i’m in love with KDE. This is amazing stuff from KDE, no doubt in that. Faster experience, Cool dolphin, snappier Gwenview and more interesting stuff. As i mentioned/ing in my posts/articles i am openSUSE user, so here i will show you how to upgrade to KDE 4.8 in openSUSE.
1st of all, you will need to add the following repos(YaST -> software repositories), and disable/delete other KDE repos you have enabled.
openSUSE 11.4:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Release:/48/openSUSE_11.4/
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/KDE_Release_48_openSUSE_11.4/
openSUSE 12.1:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Release:/48/openSUSE_12.1/
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/KDE_Release_48_openSUSE_12.1/
Now open terminal, become root by su - and type:
zypper dup
Easy and simple!
One more thing here, if you face dependency issues, i would suggest to follow this thread in openSUSE forums, read it carefully and i am pretty sure you will find all the solutions to your problem there.
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Many thanks for the instructions – my update to 4.8 went smoothly
My update went surprisingly well. No one hiccup.
Thank you.
Install went fine, now waiting for update to correct a few bugs.
My update did not work at all.. I had a fresh install of OpenSUSE 12.1
and wanted to KDE 4.8 but was unable to login afterwards. So I did a new install.. I will try again..
?? After the install I did the KDE update. But how can I check the right version?
@Willem: Just open any application(like Terminal), from the menu click on Help and check the About KDE, will show you all the necessary details about KDE. Is this what you mean?
If you are like me and have a lot of development repositories enabled I would recommend to either temporary disable other repositories or tell zypper that only KDE is to be updated:
zypper dup –from KDE_4.8
@Klaus,
The zypper way is better than disabling other repos.
Thanks for the hint.