Comments on: Howto install KDE 4.2 on openSUSE

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Amarok 2 - openSUSE Forums — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:29:57 +0000

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By: cb400f

cb400f — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:58:35 +0000

Updated compiz-kde packages should be available in the kde4:/Factory:/Desktop/ repository now. So that particular package conflict shouldn’t be relevant anymore.

Alternatively you can get compatible compiz packages from this repo:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/XGL/openSUSE_11.1_KDE4_Factory/ (assuming your using 11.1, if you’re using 11.0 then just edit the URL accordingly)

I deliberately omitted this information from the howto, trying to keep things simple, and thinking very few people will prefer compiz over KWin.

By: Adpads

Adpads — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:26:38 +0000

Thanks for the heads up! Has this been resolved yet, and is an updated version of the compiz-kde package available, from one repository or another? I’ll be happy to try KDE 4.2 when the time comes, but I use compiz and I don’t want to break that..

By: rocky

rocky — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:29:02 +0000

thank you for this detailed howto – it helped much

By: Djan

Djan — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:07:19 +0000

I used the factory repository on 10.3 and 11.0 for the KDE 4.0 and 4.1 desktops. I was aware of the risk but I must admit that I won’t do it again. To test KDE 4.2 (I’m translator) I’ve decided to install a second system on an other partition.

With a huge update (that occured every weeks or days) I just killed my system: it downloaded all packages and made my root partition full. On reboot it wasn’t regnizing any root partition. Repair system with the DVD didn’t do anything and, as I’m not an informatician, I couldn’t fix it by hand. So I had to reinstall everything.

So I agree with you than publishing such an announce is a bot dangerous.
I’m convinced that there should be a repository “KDE 4.2 vanilla stable” available with no update from factory that would be pushed for non testers.