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. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq