Hi all...

 

Just want to write down my experience in upgrading my redhat 9 machine into a pretty kde3.2 machine :)

 

First of all my redhat 9 box is a standard rpm installation with no (significant) tarballs installed. It apt-gets it's rpms from freshrpms and the dag wieers collection. It's pretty much up2date.

 

The kde3.2 rpms I used were from [/url][url=ftp://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/9/RPMS.stable/]ftp://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/9/RPMS.stable/

 

I am going to do this at home soon too, probably with the unstable ones.. just to push my luck ;)

 

 

redhat 9 needs a lot more rpms than is provided by kde-redhat.org. so off i went using rpm.pbone.net to upgrade and/or install other things. here's a list of pre-installation rpms I used.

 

hicolor-icon-theme-0.3-0.fdr.0.noarch.rpm libasound2-1.0.5-0_14.rh9.at.i386.rpm mathml-fonts-1.0-0.fdr.14.noarch.rpm jasper-1.701.0-0.fdr.2.rh90.i386.rpm libgsf-1.8.2-0.fdr.0.rh90.i386.rpm samba-2.2.8-1.i386.rpm lcms-1.12-0.fdr.0.rh90.i386.rpm libgsf-devel-1.8.2-0.fdr.0.rh90.i386.rpm themer-1.50-0.fdr.0.noarch.rpm

 

These are all kde-redhat.org except libasound, provided by atrpms.net; samba by samba.org and the mathml are straight from fedora.

 

Next install QT.

 

gtk-qt-engine-0.3-0.fdr.0.rh90.i386.rpm qt2-designer-2.3.2-0.fdr.0.rh90.i386.rpm qt2-static-2.3.2-0.fdr.0.rh90.i386.rpm qt2-2.3.2-0.fdr.0.rh90.i386.rpm qt2-devel-2.3.2-0.fdr.0.rh90.i386.rpm qt2-Xt-2.3.2-0.fdr.0.rh90.i386.rpm

 

(all of these were from kde-redhat.org)

 

Next libxml and libxslt

libxml2-2.6.9-0.99_10.rh9.at.i386.rpm libxml2-python-2.6.9-0.99_10.rh9.at.i386.rpm

libxml2-devel-2.6.9-0.99_10.rh9.at.i386.rpm

 

libxslt1-1.1.7-2_5.rh9.at.i386.rpm libxslt-devel-1.1.7-2_5.rh9.at.i386.rpm

libxslt-1.1.7-2_5.rh9.at.i386.rpm libxslt-python-1.1.7-2_5.rh9.at.i386.rpm

 

(these by atrpms.net)

 

 

Now onto kdecore. this is a lot :/

 

arts-1.2.3-1.0.rh90.kde.i386.rpm kdenetwork-devel-3.2.3-1.0.rh90.kde.i386.rpm

arts-devel-1.2.3-1.0.rh90.kde.i386.rpm kdesdk-3.2.3-1.1.rh90.kde.i386.rpm

aspell-0.50.3-0.fdr.2.rh90.i386.rpm kdesdk-devel-3.2.3-1.1.rh90.kde.i386.rpm

aspell-compat-0.33.7.1-0.ximian.2.i386.rpm kdevelop-3.0.3-1.0.rh90.kde.i386.rpm

aspell-devel-0.50.3-0.fdr.2.rh90.i386.rpm koffice-1.3.2-1.0.rh90.kde.i386.rpm

aspell-en-0.51-6.i386.rpm pspell-compat-0.12.2-0.ximian.4.i386.rpm

ghostscript-7.07-25.fdr.2.rh90.i386.rpm PyKDE-3.11.1-0.fdr.0.rh90.i386.rpm

ghostscript-devel-7.07-25.fdr.2.rh90.i386.rpm PyKDE-devel-3.11.1-0.fdr.0.rh90.i386.rpm

graphviz-1.12-0.fdr.2.rh90.i386.rpm PyQt-3.12-0.fdr.1.rh90.i386.rpm

gtk+-1.2.10-30.fdr.3.rh90.i386.rpm PyQt-devel-3.12-0.fdr.1.rh90.i386.rpm

gtk2-2.2.4-6.fdr.2.rh90.i386.rpm PyQt-examples-3.12-0.fdr.1.rh90.i386.rpm

gtk2-devel-2.2.4-6.fdr.2.rh90.i386.rpm PyQt-qscintilla-3.12-0.fdr.1.rh90.i386.rpm

gtk+-devel-1.2.10-30.fdr.3.rh90.i386.rpm qscintilla-1.3-0.fdr.0.rh90.i386.rpm

ImageMagick-5.5.7.15-0.fdr.2.rh90.i386.rpm qt-3.3.2-10.1.rh90.kde.i386.rpm

ImageMagick-c++-5.5.7.15-0.fdr.2.rh90.i386.rpm qt-designer-3.3.2-10.1.rh90.kde.i386.rpm

ImageMagick-c++-devel-5.5.7.15-0.fdr.2.rh90.i386.rpm qt-devel-3.3.2-10.1.rh90.kde.i386.rpm

ImageMagick-devel-5.5.7.15-0.fdr.2.rh90.i386.rpm qt-MySQL-3.3.2-10.1.rh90.kde.i386.rpm

ImageMagick-perl-5.5.7.15-0.fdr.2.rh90.i386.rpm qt-ODBC-3.3.2-10.1.rh90.kde.i386.rpm

kdeadmin-3.2.3-1.0.rh90.kde.i386.rpm qt-PostgreSQL-3.3.2-10.1.rh90.kde.i386.rpm

kdeartwork-3.2.3-1.1.rh90.kde.i386.rpm quanta-3.2.3-1.0.rh90.kde.i386.rpm

kdeartwork-icons-3.2.3-1.1.rh90.kde.i386.rpm redhat-artwork-0.96-1.1.rh90.kde.i386.rpm

kdebase-3.2.3-1.0.rh90.kde.i386.rpm redhat-menus-1.4.1-1.noarch.rpm

kdebase-devel-3.2.3-1.0.rh90.kde.i386.rpm sip-3.10.2-0.fdr.0.rh90.i386.rpm

kdelibs-3.2.3-1.0.rh90.kde.i386.rpm sip-devel-3.10.2-0.fdr.0.rh90.i386.rpm

kdelibs-devel-3.2.3-1.0.rh90.kde.i386.rpm superkaramba-0.33-0.fdr.1.rh90.i386.rpm

kdenetwork-3.2.3-1.0.rh90.kde.i386.rpm wv2-0.2.1-0.fdr.2.rh90.i386.rpm

 

If you were to drop koffice, you could also skip upgrading ghostscript, imagemagick, aspell, pspell and wv2. keeping koffice proved to be a real bitch :/

 

All these rpms by kde-redhat.org except aspell/pspell by ximian, redhat-* come from fedora afaik.

 

Then your installation should break. ld.so.conf does not get told there are new qt libraries, so add in /usr/lib/qt-3.3/lib and your apps (kdeinit) should find that. after that things are all fine.

a quick reboot will make kdm DoS your cpu. I have no idea why but it does not like new qt libraries.

Jul 14 15:19:17 sa kdm: :0[2692]: Abnormal termination of greeter for display :0, code 127, signal 0

 

weird shit.

 

Post installation rpms:

 

fribidi-0.10.4-0.fdr.0.rh90.i386.rpm kdepim-3.2.3-1.0.rh90.kde.i386.rpm

k3b-0.11.12-0.fdr.0.rh90.i386.rpm kdepim-devel-3.2.3-1.0.rh90.kde.i386.rpm

k3b-mp3-0.11.12-0.fdr.0.rh90.i386.rpm kdeutils-3.2.3-1.0.rh90.kde.i386.rpm

kdeaddons-3.2.3-1.0.rh90.kde.i386.rpm libmal-0.31-0.fdr.1.rh90.i386.rpm

kdegames-3.2.3-1.0.rh90.kde.i386.rpm musicman-0.11-0.fdr.0.rh90.i386.rpm

kdegames-devel-3.2.3-1.0.rh90.kde.i386.rpm scribus-1.1.7-0.fdr.0.rh90.i386.rpm

kdegraphics-3.2.3-1.0.rh90.kde.i386.rpm scribus-devel-1.1.7-0.fdr.0.rh90.i386.rpm

kdegraphics-devel-3.2.3-1.0.rh90.kde.i386.rpm thinkeramik-3.2.1-0.fdr.1.rh90.i386.rpm

 

(all by kde-redhat.org)

 

you should install these as it makes things all pretty. don't forget nuvola icons!!!! a must for kde3.2!!! things to watch out for are kdepim/kmail being buggy pieces of shit (im staying with evolution for now) and all gtk apps look so weird. I haven't upgraded this box to the new mozilla 1.6/galeon that apt has on offer. i like the old galeon 1.2.13

 

I have yet to install kdemultimedia and openoffice.org

they`re conflicting with so much shit and I'm lazy.

 

All in all this effort was a big pain in the ass but it's worth it, because now i can edit python in kdevelop3 !!!!! :)

anybody else who wants kde3.2 should upgrade to fedora2.

da!!as