Getting KDE Testing and new Stable Builds

Prescience500 · #1 2nd August 2012, 07:53 AM

I'm trying to get involved in KDE. While I'll be doing some bug reporting, I intend to (at least for now) focus on writting guides. To ensure both the quality of my work and timeliness of edits, I want to run new releases (like the new KDE 4.9 that won't be available in normal Fedora channels until Fedora 18) and alpha's and beta's so I can watch the progression and keep my documents updated accoringly. I'm not superb with the command line, but if instructions are specific and detailed, I can use it just fine. Since I'm new to Fedora, I tried researching how to add KDE repos on my computer, but I havn't found anything detailed enough. I found this: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Testing, which I'm sure is great for the devs and command line junkies but I'll need more detail to get it working. Can anyone help me?

#2 2nd August 2012, 07:59 AM

The instructions are clear enough on the link posted IMO.

Prescience500 · #3 2nd August 2012, 10:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yellowman

The instructions are clear enough on the link posted IMO.

Do I first copy the file into that directory or do I just do the command line? Either way...I'm assuming that the repo name goes where it says <repo>, but what goes in <packages>?

nonamedotc · #4 2nd August 2012, 02:54 PM

Copy the contents of the kde.repo file to a kde.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d and then use yum to upgrade the packages.

#5 2nd August 2012, 03:07 PM

Quick method

Code:

su
curl http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/fedora/kde.repo -o /etc/yum.repos.d/kde.repo
yum --enablerepo kde-unstable update

Prescience500 · #6 2nd August 2012, 08:26 PM

Thanks, I've gotten it to work with yum. After adding the repos, for some reason it won't let me enable and disable them with apper. Is this a bug?

#7 2nd August 2012, 11:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Prescience500

Thanks, I've gotten it to work with yum. After adding the repos, for some reason it won't let me enable and disable them with apper. Is this a bug?

I don't know as I would dream of using a gui app for package management.

errorxp · #8 3rd August 2012, 02:53 PM

Learn some basic yum commands, it's pretty easy

http://www.algonet.se/~afb/smart/Pac...CheatSheet.pdf

marko · #9 7th August 2012, 06:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Prescience500

Thanks, I've gotten it to work with yum. After adding the repos, for some reason it won't let me enable and disable them with apper. Is this a bug?

installing and using yumex is another option

REF:
http://www.yumex.dk/

It's in the Fedora repositories