How to upgrade KDE 3.5.5

[marufsiddiqui]

Hi everyone
Today I first installed kubuntu 6.06 & very much excited about it, Now i wanna do few things

1. I saw new KDE version is available. So i wanna upgrade. I dont have direct internet connection. I have to download the .deb file from cyber cafe & then install them on my pc. in this situation, how can i upgrade to newest version? I mean i visited the site

http://kubuntu.org/announcements/kde-355.php

& there were some links to download KDE. I visit http://kubuntu.org/packages/kde-355 & somehow lost so many file & folders, I dont understand what i exactly need to download. I hope you will understand what i wanna say

2. I want to install gnome. give me a demo about it ie what i exactly need to download to install gnome fully

3. As I dont have internet connection I face problem in installing the packages. for xample
suppose to install P, Q must be installed &
again to install Q, P must be installed. what a contradictory! u know what i mean-- the dependency thing.

How can I solve this problem?

Another xample suppose I wanna install mplayer, I download all the dependencies. then put them all in a new folder now how to install? boz i am facing problem that i have described in xample 1.

No need 2 say i am a new linux user & I really wanna learn it.

Please help me how to solve these probllems

[Rog131]

Re: How to upgrade KDE 3.5.5

Easiest part :

I download all the dependencies. then put them all in a new folder now how to install?

Maybe this helps:
Topic: forcing update to use downloaded packages
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=10229.0


Hard part :

the dependency thing.

How can I solve this problem?

Well - lot of hard work. When you have intenet connection apt/adept/synaptic/whatever checks depedencies. Now you have to check them one by one.


Example:

What gnome needs /1/ /2/

sudo apt-get install -s ubuntu-desktop

apt tells:

alacarte app-install-data-commercial at-spi bittorrent bluez-pin brltty-x11
bug-buddy capplets-data contact-lookup-applet dbus-1-utils deskbar-applet
desktop-file-utils ekiga eog esound evince evolution evolution-data-server
evolution-exchange evolution-plugins evolution-webcal festival festlex-cmu
festlex-poslex festvox-kallpc16k file-roller firefox firefox-gnome-support...

That is when you have net.

Now you have to go to the Ubuntu packages (http://packages.ubuntu.com/) Search: ubuntu-desktop/dapper -> Package: ubuntu-desktop (0.119)
-> Other Packages Related to ubuntu-desktop and so on ...


About gnome. You could download alternate ubuntu cd. And install gnome from there. Ubuntu download (http://www.ubuntu.com/products/GetUbuntu/download#lts)

Alternate install CD

The alternate install CD allows you to perform certain specialist installations of Ubuntu. It provides for the following situations:

* creating pre-configured OEM systems;
* setting up automated deployments;
* upgrading from older installations without network access;
* LVM and/or RAID partitioning;
* installing GRUB to a location other than the Master Boot Record;
* installs on systems with less than about 192MB of RAM.

More:
Topic: How to install codecs/repositories/packages with no internet connection? (http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=9066.0)

Topic: Installing applications from a disk
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=9202.0

Topic: possible without internet? (http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=3798.0)




/1/ Installing Gnome on Kubuntu
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/gnome
/2/ APT HOWTO
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/ap.../index.en.html

[marufsiddiqui]

Re: How to upgrade KDE 3.5.5

But u didnt say anything about how can I upgrade to latest KDE version

Plz someone help me to do this,

[Rog131]

Re: How to upgrade KDE 3.5.5

Hmm - Easy way(without net) to get 3.5.5 is upgrade to 6.10.

From Kubuntu 6.10 - Taking You To The Edge (http://kubuntu.org/announcements/6.10-release.php)

Kubuntu operating system. KDE version 3.5.5 is the current stable release and Kubuntu 6.10 is the first distribution to include it.

snip

If you have a Kubuntu 6.10 CD, put it in the drive, and run apt-cdrom from the command line. Then follow the instructions above.

snip

Alternate CD: The alternate CD allows you perform custom, or expert, installations of Kubuntu. It is required for setting up automated deployments, upgrading from older installations without network access,...