oldwierdal Posted October 9, 2008 Report Share Posted October 9, 2008 Please correct me if I'm wrong. My understanding is that with Easy-Urpmi, when a new release comes out, such as Mandriva 2009, your system will be upgraded from the current level to the new release level via on-line updates/upgrades rather than downloading the iso, burning a CD/DVD, and installing in what has become, for most distributions, the standard method. Is this correct? owa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medo3891 Posted October 10, 2008 Report Share Posted October 10, 2008 If you wait a day or two an updated mdkapplet package will be released in Mandriva 2008.1 after that update when you update your system as usual you will be prompted that there's a new stable release available and if you want to upgrade just like "installing in what has become, for most distributions, the standard method" : ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medo3891 Posted October 10, 2008 Report Share Posted October 10, 2008 If you wait a day or two an updated mdkapplet package will be released in Mandriva 2008.1 after that update when you update your system as usual you will be prompted that there's a new stable release available and if you want to upgrade just like "installing in what has become, for most distributions, the standard method" : ) Also read here: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2009.0_Notes#U...evious_releases Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldwierdal Posted October 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2008 If you wait a day or two an updated mdkapplet package will be released in Mandriva 2008.1 after that update when you update your system as usual you will be prompted that there's a new stable release available and if you want to upgrade just like "installing in what has become, for most distributions, the standard method" : ) Also read here: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2009.0_Notes#U...evious_releases Thanks for the quick reply. So..... Over the past weekend, I installed the Easy-Urpmi package. I do not recall seeing an 'mdkapplet' package since then. If I do sudo rpm -qa | grep mdkapplet, it returns nothing, meaning mdkapplet is not installed. Is it under another name, or has it not yet released. Assuming all has happened as expected, how can I tell if I'm running on Mandriva 2008.1 or Mandriva 2009? Unless I missed it, the link you provided does not indicate that Mandriva 2009 would be updated in this manner. Did you mean if I wait a day or two from today, Oct. 9, I should see this package? Or a day or two from the day I installed Easy-Urpmi, which was Sun., Oct. 5? Forgive me if I'm sounding dumb. I'm just a bit new to Mandriva. Besides, I'm old, and easily confused. owa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medo3891 Posted October 10, 2008 Report Share Posted October 10, 2008 My bad, it's mdkonline : S A day or two from today 9 oct (actually 10 here). The wiki page I linked is telling you that if you upgrade with the way I mentioned you won't have the problem of KDE4 overwriting your KDE3 settings. If you want KDE4 then install task-kde4 . On a side note, you don't install easyuprmi you just use that site to add the Mandriva software repositories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldwierdal Posted October 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2008 My bad, it's mdkonline : S A day or two from today 9 oct (actually 10 here). The wiki page I linked is telling you that if you upgrade with the way I mentioned you won't have the problem of KDE4 overwriting your KDE3 settings. If you want KDE4 then install task-kde4 . On a side note, you don't install easyuprmi you just use that site to add the Mandriva software repositories. You are quite right about Easy-Urpmi. Incidentally, I just did the update which installed mdkonline as well as a couple of others. As for KDE, I've really tried to like it. I really have. But I use gnome. It's like beer, I guess. You either like it or you don't. Again, thanks for the quick response. I'll just wait and let it do its thing with the updates. owa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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