[ale] KDE 3.0.2 for RedHat available

[Michael Hirsch]

On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 12:00, Fulton Green wrote:
> This will probably require upgrading libstdc++ and simultaneously
> installing a "compat-libstdc++" for the other C++-based apps on your
> system, but ...

Ick.  no thanks.  I've had enough trouble upgrading redhat in my life to
not even think about using a beta versoin of a major upgrade.

Apparently Redhat goes to extreme lengths to make it hard to upgrade
KDE.  I heard many KDE developers complain about RedHat's KDE support. 
One of the several reasons I use mandrake on my personal systems.

--Michael

>   $ ftp ftp.redhat.com
>   Trying 66.77.185.35...
>   Connected to ftp.redhat.com (66.77.185.35).
>   220 Red Hat FTP server ready. All transfers are logged.
>   331 Please specify the password.
>   230 Login successful. Have fun.
>   Remote system type is UNIX.
>   Using binary mode to transfer files.
>   ftp> cd /pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS
>   250 Directory successfully changed.
>   ftp> dir kdebase-*
>   227 Entering Passive Mode (66,77,185,35,57,169)
>   150 Here comes the directory listing.
>   -rw-r--r--    1 529      529      18765961 Aug 12 16:28 kdebase-3.0.3-1.i386.rpm
>   -rw-r--r--    1 529      529         75856 Aug 12 16:28 kdebase-devel-3.0.3-1.i386.rpm
>   226 Directory send OK.
>   ftp> 221 Goodbye.
> 
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 11:45:58AM -0400, Michael Hirsch wrote:
> > I only just found out after the ALe meeting last week that someone has
> > built KDE 3.0.2 for RedHat 7.3.  If any of you are like me and use KDE
> > and RedHat together, I recommend them.  3.0.0 (which ships with RH 7.3)
> > has some problems.
> > 
> > Of course, 3.0.3 is supposed to come out in a week or two.  I wonder how
> > long that will take to get built for RH.



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