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Upgrading to KDE 4.2 in your favorite Linux distro

January 31, 2009

Couple of days ago I’d posted about KDE 4.2 being released. As much as I wanted to upgrade KDE 4.2, I couldn’t do so immediately as it was not available in official Repos, the community repos had the RC version. Everyday I would do a equo search kde-meta hoping that I’d see the KDE 4.2 branch, and guess what it was available today :D

Here’s a quick roundup on installing/upgrading to KDE 4.2 on some popular distros:

Sabayon 4:

First switch to root. For that, type

su root

next,

Just open up the terminal and type

equo update

That updates the repo to have the latest packages. Now most probably you’ll have to update equo since the update has the latest version of equo. So next type

equo install equo

This will update equo, entropy and Spritz to latest version. Certain config files will have to be updated, so just type

equo update conf

And now, finally update to KDE 4.2 by typing

equo install kde-meta-4.2.0

And that’s it! Your KDE will be updated to KDE 4.2.0!

openSUSE:

Click on the below 1-click links to upgrade:

openSUSE 11.1 | openSUSE 11.0 | openSUSE 10.3

Fedora:

From what I gather, KDE 4.2 is not yet available as an update to Fedora 10. You’ll have to enable the testing repos by typing

yum --enablerepo=kde-testing,kde-testing-all update

at the terminal followed by

yum groupinstall "KDE (K Desktop Environment)"

Do note you need to be root to do so.

Debian Lenny: Check this post

ArchLinux:

>pacman -Syu

**Warning: This installs KDE 4.2 pkgs alright, however, kdm will not start

now. Forums have no solution yet.**

Thanks to RollMeWay for the inputs

Some pics:

**WARNING: While Upgrading to KDE 4.2 on Sabayon, wireless will be broken. This isn’t KDE 4.2’s fault, I’m inclined to say its because of PolicyKit since PolicyKit was installed as I installed KDE4.2 and I know PolicyKit can be a _real_ pain.

Update: The wireless breaking is a result of Network. Here’s a post on getting this fixed.

Update: As mentioned by lythandrel, changed removed references to sudo