[CentOS] Re: kdewebdev aka Quanta or

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 11:36 +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 08:52 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > 
> >>Lamar Owen wrote:
> >>
> >>>>does this exist for CentOS 4 ?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Yes, the EL4 repository works fine on CentOS4.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>taking a wild swing, I set up /etc/yum.repos/kde-redhat.repo and for
> >>>>S&G's, I ran the obligatory 'yum update' to see what would happen.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>It's an aggressive update to be sure.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Yes, it is.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>KDE 3.5.0 (and all the dependent stuff such as qt) but also samba and
> >>>>openoffice.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Is anyone reporting happiness / contentment with their repo enabled and
> >>>>their updates installed?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>I use it daily on multiple machines; I have a twin need for the stability
> >>>of CentOS (update-wise) on one hand, but the features of the later Kstars
> >>>(part of the 'edutainment' kdeedu package) on the other.  Kstars for KDE
> >>>3.4 and above has telescope control; see my .sig for why that might be
> >>>important to me.
> >>>
> >>>The 3.5 update didn't really break much.  However, you will have
> >>>difficulty with things that use the kdesu utility, since, at least with
> >>>the latest updates, su is asking a second question (about the security
> >>>context) and that hangs kdesu hard 
> >>
> >>Ack.  I'll have to look into that.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>KDE 3.5 is slower, unfortunately, so you don't want to do this on an old
> >>>machine; the machine needs to be recent and needs to have more than 256MB
> >>>RAM for sure.  On one machine, going from 256MB to 512MB doubled its
> >>>apparent speed; the further increase to 1GB added another 33% or so on
> >>>some tasks.
> >>
> >>Provided ample RAM, I've personally found kde 3.5 to be subjectively 
> >>faster (partly due to pkg optimization tweaking).
> > 
> > ----
> > I've been unable to install anything lacking the public key for the
> > repo.
> > 
> > I tried (from kde-redhat.sourceforge.net)
> > 
> > # rpm -ivh
> > http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/gpg-pubkey-ff6382fa-3e1ab2ca
> > Retrieving
> > http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/gpg-pubkey-ff6382fa-3e1ab2ca
> > Retrieving http://kde-redhat.sf.net/
> > error: skipping http://kde-redhat.sf.net/ - transfer failed - Unknown or
> > unexpected error
> 
> rpm --import the gpg key, not install it.
> 
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duh   ;-)

I was pre-occupied with freenx and didn't spend any time on it - of
course you're right and I wasn't thinking.

Thanks

Craig