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. > ---- 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