veeral Posted May 21, 2005 Report Share Posted May 21, 2005 Experts :D , please help me upgrading my mandrake 10.1 community to mandrake latest and also please tell me what kde 3.4 is. I have kde 3.2. I want to intsall these upgrades because I am hoping that will somehow help my wireless problem which I keep posting in the laptop section but haven't got it solved yet. Please guide me how to get the rpms for the latest version and how to upgrade the kernel as well as KDE? Please overlook my ignorance. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted May 21, 2005 Report Share Posted May 21, 2005 (edited) There are a number of ways you can upgrade: 1. Use CD/DVD media, boot from it and choose Upgrade. 2. Remove existing urpmi sources, and point to the 2005 sources (main, contrib, updates, plf-free, plf-nonfree). The first option is probably the best if you don't have a fast internet connection. Mine is only 128Kbps, and is just about bearable to use the urpmi sources (if you don't mind a six hour wait to complete the upgrade!). If you do the second option, su and supply root password then type "urpmi --auto-select --auto". This will look through your existing setup, and download the updates for everything you've got installed at present. Once you've finished, update your kernel to the latest, and also your kernel source too if you have this installed. Then check that udev is installed, and check LILO to make sure any devfs=mount is changed to devfs=nomount. If they don't exist, then it'll be OK for udev. After installing udev, reboot the system and check for errors. If any, resolve. If not, remove devfsd and then check by rebooting to see if there are any errors. If there are, resolve or post here to find out more about the errors and resolution. Reason why to install udev is because devfsd isn't supported in updated kernels. You'll need to run the updated kernels for the latest version anyway, so best to switch now. Udev is better anyhow IMHO. KDE 3.4 is the latest version. If you add a urpmi source for thacs rpms you'll be able to install easily this way. You'll need to make sure you have all the sources though in addition to this (main, contrib, updates, plf-free, plf-nonfree) as they depend on these. Edited May 21, 2005 by ianw1974 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sellis Posted May 21, 2005 Report Share Posted May 21, 2005 I can vouch for ianw's instructions - I have just upgraded from a DVD and the "udev" tip was invaluable. See also this thread: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=25525&hl= Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veeral Posted May 22, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2005 thanks a lot guys...:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sellis Posted May 22, 2005 Report Share Posted May 22, 2005 How did you get on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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