Kde team proudly announced the new release of KDE plasma workspace and platform with new features and improvements. Some of the noticeable features include Dolphin File Manager, Konsole X Terminal Emulator, Activities, and the KWin Window Manager. If you are openSUSE user with KDE desktop, you will be interested to update to this new release.

Read the announcement for new features and improvements.

If you want to upgrade your openSUSE machine to this new release, this will be quite simple if you previously did any upgrading process. But no worries, i will make it simple if you did not upgrade before even. Before adding the repos below, please make sure that you had disabled other KDE repos like 4.8 or 4.7 etc.

1- Open YaST -> software repositories and add the following repos for you openSUSE box:

openSUSE 12.1:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Release:/49/openSUSE_12.1/

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/KDE_Release_49_openSUSE_12.1/

2- From here on, you can follow two steps to upgrade, either by YaST software management by switching the packages OR by terminal[best way].

Now open terminal, become root by su - and type:

zypper dup –from KDE-R49 && KDE-RE49

KDE-R49 and KDE-RE49 are the repos name which you just added in step 1, it can be different in your case[as you will name it].

Good luck with the upgrade process.

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