Guest DeathsFriend Posted September 3, 2003 Report Share Posted September 3, 2003 Hi Guys, I know you must all be sick to death of this, but I'm getting kinda annoyed with my machine now. I have two desktops, both running Mandrake 9.0 PowerPack. I want to update to KDE 3.1.3. Easy enought, I thought. Until I tried. Thankfully, I've only cabbaged my second desktop, so no work lost, however, I'd REALLY like to know, in step-by-step-click-here-type-this format how to update. I have the download edition of Mandrake 9.1, and I tried using that to upgrade, and oh, boy that right royally screwed everything up. There isn't anything special about my two machines - they're both the same spec (right down to the motherboard), and I would like to keep them upto date. Does anyone have any advice, suggestions (and now I've re-read my post, flames) ? I would really like to get going with Linux, I fancy testing my somewhat dusty C/C++ skills in it. Thanks in advance guys, DeathsFriend Occassionally, I get things wrong.... Its when I get them right that worries me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted September 3, 2003 Report Share Posted September 3, 2003 Welcome to the board. MDK 9.2 final will be released soon, so you might want to wait for that. If you don't well, while some people have no problems upgrading, many do. The safest bet is to do a fresh install, during the install choose custom setup or custom disk partitioning, elect to NOT format your /home partition, that way you won't loose any of your personal files or data. Please browse through our FAQs and search facility for more specific detail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezroller Posted September 4, 2003 Report Share Posted September 4, 2003 anon is right. if you leave your home partition alone, all of your user-specific config files will still be there. you can also use urpmi to do some of the updating. though, coming from 9.0, I would have to suggest waiting a few days or weeks until the 9.2 final iso's start coming out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted September 6, 2003 Report Share Posted September 6, 2003 Just remember to never ever ever ever EVER do an update from one version of Mandy to another - the results are always disastorous, rather make backups and do a clean install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Germ Posted September 6, 2003 Report Share Posted September 6, 2003 On my test box I upgraded 9.1 to 9.2 rc1 and it went beautifully. No problems, at all. When 9.1 final was released, I upgraded the 9.0 install on my main box. I backed up everything first, of course. It went beautifully, as well. I've had excellent luck doing version upgrades. YMMV. :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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