ffi Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Mandriva 2009.0 KDE 4.2.1 packages available - With Qt 4.5.0 final!Submitted by heliocastro on Thu, 03/05/2009 - 00:17Â Arrived the time of year of doing another test upgrade for Mandriva users. This time is a little bit special, since you will be using Qt 4.5.0 final, with all our efforts to make it stable with backports, annoying some KDE devels ( thanks dfaure and Thiago ), etc. Standard urpmi repositories are available. README for some detailed information. http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3909 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexicon Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 (edited) These are repositories for Mandriva 2009 Official for x86_32 urpmi.addmedia kde42-20090 <kde-mirror>/stable/4.2.1/Mandriva/2009.0/RPMS/i586 for x86_64: urpmi.addmedia kde42-20090 <kde-mirror>/stable/4.2.1/Mandriva/2009.0/RPMS/x86_64 Add all urpmi.addmedia kde42-20090-noarch <kde-mirror>/stable/4.2.1/Mandriva/2009.0/RPMS/noarch For kde-mirror find servers here http://www.kde.org/mirrors/ftp.php example urpmi.addmedia kde42-20090-noarch http://ftp.kde.org/stable/4.2.1/Mandriva/2009.0/RPMS/noarch .....Lex [Lexicon, I've merged your post with this topic. - Greg2] Edited March 11, 2009 by Lexicon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieth Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 I'm up and running w/KDE 4.2.1. After upgrading, I had a blank screen because of a missing file. I logged out (crtl + alt + del), logged into another desktop, and downloaded mandriva-kde-translation-2009.1-0.1mdv2009.0.noarch.rpm (the missing file). After that, MCC updated more files. Now I'm up and running. It took only a few minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted March 5, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 initially all the package from the kdebase-runtime src rpm were missing but it has been fixed now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 No idea how good/bad are the Mandriva packages, but I've just installed KDE 4.2.1 from the kdemod repos for Archlinux, using qt 4.5 (plus the newest xorg binaries 1.6.0), and I'm really shocked: It just WORKS- no plasma crashes, no aiglx issues, no nothing.... Is it for real? Maybe not... but it is the VERY first time I have a stable and fully working KDE4 desktop handy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted March 5, 2009 Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Scarecrow, using Qt 4.5 how does the RAM usage compare to KDE3? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted March 5, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 No idea how good/bad are the Mandriva packages, but I've just installed KDE 4.2.1 from the kdemod repos for Archlinux, using qt 4.5 (plus the newest xorg binaries 1.6.0), and I'm really shocked:It just WORKS- no plasma crashes, no aiglx issues, no nothing.... Is it for real? Maybe not... but it is the VERY first time I have a stable and fully working KDE4 desktop handy... better than the arch packages I would guess as kde4 has been pretty stable here on mdv, featureless and sometimes awkward, but stable :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted March 5, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2009 Scarecrow, using Qt 4.5 how does the RAM usage compare to KDE3? I am on cooker and there is no kde3 anymore so, can't compare but clean user default settings x86_64, 4GB kde4.2 vs xfce4.6: 350MB vs 300MB but kde4 starts up with a lot more programs by default and has to load gtk libraries to for net_applet and mdkonline, with a little bit of tweaking they are very much comparable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted March 6, 2009 Report Share Posted March 6, 2009 (edited) In my system, and according to ksysguard, it eats some 410 MB alone. XFCE4 eats about half. Not having KDE3 installed right now, but at my daughters laptop (which is currently running Archlinux and Kdemod-legacy (AKA KDE 3.5.10) RAM usage is approx. 330 MB- which is quite lower. But I wouldn't use this as a measure- different hardware, different systems, different figures. Edited March 6, 2009 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexicon Posted March 6, 2009 Report Share Posted March 6, 2009 (edited) The KDE 4.2.1 installation lasts. About 350 Mb but I chose QT 4, we will see what will result from it. 367 positions on MDV-ONE .... Lex ------------------------------------------------- On end find command use "urpme --auto-ophans" By my KDE 4.2.1, but I have only English version 3.5.10. Don't use "urpme --auto-ophans" Edited March 6, 2009 by Lexicon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieth Posted March 7, 2009 Report Share Posted March 7, 2009 Don't use "urpme --auto-ophans" For sure! I did once (KDE4? - I don't remember), and boy did it make a mess. It took off almost everything! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viking777 Posted March 7, 2009 Report Share Posted March 7, 2009 The words 'enjoy' and 'KDE4' don't belong in the same sentence unless you are a masochist :D I have 4.2 running on Suse 11.1 and it is even worse than 4.1 and I didn't think that was possible. My opinion is that the KDE team have sacked all the developers that worked on the wonderful 3.5.10 and replaced them with redundant corporate bankers because they are cheaper to employ. Thank the Lord for Xfce. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexicon Posted March 7, 2009 Report Share Posted March 7, 2009 I have KDE4.2.1. Not applied urpme - -auto-ofans. The work shall also Xfce-One. KDE 3.5.10 has been several times faster. Now I have to choose the color .... Lex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxboy Posted March 11, 2009 Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 Im running the kde4.1, apart from the occaisional plasma crash its pretty stable. I am interested in updating though. Can someone guide me through this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexicon Posted March 11, 2009 Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 My Post #2 in this topic ....Lex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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