Thanks On Friday 15 July 2005 03:08 am, Mariusz Pękala wrote: > On 2005-07-15 00:46:45 +0100 (Fri, Jul), Edward Catmur wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 17:58 -0500, Qv6 wrote: > > > I am currently running kde-3.3, and do not want to have both 3.3 > > > and 3.4 on the box. How can I update kde or any other app and not > > > have the old version still installed. > > > > Update kde as usual, then > > > > # emerge -av --depclean > > > > Make sure that portage doesn't offer to remove packages you want to > > keep installed! Also a good idea to run revdep-rebuild afterwards. > > As this version of kde is slotted I believe that after your > compilation finishes, and you find the new KDE in working state, you > should: > > emerge prune kde > emerge -va prune arts > > and then run emerge -av --depclean > > After depclean there will be a few leftovers from kde if I recall > well. You may find them looking at /usr/kde/3.3/ and finding packages > that own files left there. > > qpkg -f /usr/kde/3.3/some-file > emerge -va prune the-package-found-if-it-is-part-of-kde > > Some files will not belong to any package, you may delete them, some > packages will have to be rebuild to use the new KDE version and leave > the old - dev-db/knoda in my case... > > Surely you may cook a nice script that will find and clear the KDE > leftovers in more hackish way, but it was very hot the day I was > doing this and my brain cooling system was not working properly... > :-) > > Remember to run revdep-rebuild -p after you remove some packages. It > may help you to find ones that need to be unmerged, and it is anyway > a good habit to run it. > > HTH.
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