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1. Den November 3rd, 2006 11:51 am

   Hi! I want to upgrade my current installation of KDE to the most current version (3.5.5), but the computer it’s going on only has dialup access, and obviously it would take an EXTREMELY long time to get all of the necessary components.

   I have decided to attempt to install the program manually, downloading the pieces I need onto my laptop, then transferring them over to my XP machine and copying them to the Suse 10.0 installation, which can read NTFS partitions. yes, it sounds kinda Rube Goldberg-ish, but the laptop has wireless access, but no CD/DVD burner.

   Anyways, what components are required to do just a bare-bones install? Thank you)

2. shazow November 3rd, 2006 12:21 pm

   Hi Den,

   That depends on whether you want to install from source or use your distribution’s package manager.

   Personally, I haven’t used SuSE, so I could could be wrong… As far as I can tell, SuSE supports RPM packages for installation. So what you want to do is find an RPM repository mirror and get all the RPMs which you’re interested in. There might be a KDE meta-package which contains all the KDE packages in one. And
   then use the rpm command to install it from the local packages.

   Have a look at this for installation instructions: http://docs.kde.org/development/en/kdebase/faq/install.html

   And here is the official kde package repository for SuSE 10:
   http://software.opensuse.org/download/repositories/KDE:/KDE3/SUSELinux10.0/

   So for an utterly bare-bones install, you’d just need kdebase and whatever dependencies it has — like QT >=3.3.

   Good luck!

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