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From: Bo Ørsted Andresen <bo.andresen@××××.dk> |
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading slotted KDE |
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Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 19:06:46 +0200 |
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> On Saturday 17 June 2006 18:47, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: |
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> > ....in this (lucky) case I would have another question: |
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> > Can I "switch" between both slots, or how is this handled ? |
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> Please keep your replies on list only, i.e. don't include me in the To field. |
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Oooops....sorry...that was not intended.... |
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> When you install two versions into separate slots they are simply installed in |
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> different places on the hard drive. Assuming you are speaking of KDE 3.4 and |
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> 3.5, 3.4 is installed to /usr/kde/3.4 and 3.5 is installed to /usr/kde/3.5. |
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> If you are using kdm to log in to KDE you can simply choose either KDE 3.4 or |
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> 3.5 each time you log in. It's as simple as that. If that doesn't answer your |
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> question then please have a look at [1]. And if you are still confused then |
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> please rephrase your question. |
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> [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-config.xml |
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> Bo Andresen |
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Hi Bo, |
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AH! Enlightment! Now! :O) |
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That answers a lot and de-confuses me totally ;) |
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I thought in levels of the complexity of upgrading glibc, gcc or such |
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things (that's why my initial question...), but with using simply two |
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different paths all that is really harmless! :) |
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Thanks a lot for your help! :) |
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Have a nice weekend, |
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mcc |
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