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 and I'm stumped Craig