Road to KDE 3.4

My [Gentoo](http://www.gentoo.org) system is getting rusty (by Gentoo’s standards, at least). It’s now time to upgrade! Because of the new KDE 3.4, this is probably my first major upgrade I’ve done using a puny GPRS connection.

At first, I thought this is the right time to try the new [KDE split ebuilds](http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/kde-split-ebuilds.html), but I decide not to further waste my time :). The split ebuilds is too new, and the ‘monolithic’ build is still well supported. Maybe later.

Emerge sync took about half an hour. Then I unmasked the KDE ebuilds in `/etc/portage/packages.keywords`. Yes yes, I should have waited until they get unmasked, but as usual, I was too eager too try the new KDE. From `emerge -Dupv world`: Total size of downloads: 278,940 kB. Whoa! This gonna take a few days to say the least.

OK, then I did several `emerge -Duf world` runs everytime I got a chance until all files get downloaded. It took a bit more than two days. The culprit, as usual, was JDK that required me to download it manually :(. Thankfully, the new portage didn’t block when encountering packages that needed to be downloaded manually.

Lastly, `emerge -Du world` took less than 24 hours with a few roadblocks. First, I needed to to make symlink from 3.4.3-20050110 to 3.4.3 inside /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu, or else the compiler won’t be able to find the required libraries (probably a bug in GCC). Second, avifile refused to compile with this version of GCC :(, unmasking the latest version solved the problem.

Now I have the shiny [KDE 3.4](http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.4.php) at my disposal :).

Total time taken: a bit more than three days. Three days seems a lot for an upgrade, but it is still a lot better than upgrading the entire system every six months or so :). Not to mention that I’m doing this on my GPRS connection :).

16 comments

  1. Waaahh…senasib nih. Aku upgrade Hoary dari testing ke stable malah lebih lama, udah dua hari masih sisa 50 paket lagi :( , intenetnya lagi lambat banget. Cuma 2KBs…

    Pake Pentium III gak begitu masalah, paling waktu buildnya aja yang agak lama, yang bikin BT nungguin donlotnya itu lho…duuuh gak sabar nunggunya.

  2. #3: sebenernya gak repot, asalkan: komputer lumayan cepat (sekelas P-III ke atas) dan koneksi internet bagus. kalau gak punya komputer yang gak cepat masih bisa diakalin dengan ‘distcc’ ke beberapa komputer (kalau punya lebih dari satu komputer). yang susah itu kalau koneksi internetnya gak memadai.

  3. =)), itu beneran pake matrix pri?
    gue hampir sama kayak elo, tapi waktu mau install dropline gnome di slackware 10.1. Akhirnya gw download dulu semua paketnya dari warnet, abis itu install manually pake script dropline installer.

    Gnome Still Rocks! :-D

  4. waduh … kalo masalah beginian .. aku bingung .. maklum yang diketahui cuman windows :(( om pri ajarin private bayar berapa ? :x

  5. aku pake kubuntu (KDE Window Managernya Ubuntu) udah KDE 3.4loo
    tinggal apt-get install ato pake synaptic :d

  6. Kalo aku kmrn udah coba via Konstruct di FC3. Thx goodness is works :)>-. tapi pas udah selesai ternyata baru tau, KDE 3.4 udah masuk repo stablenya FC3. Yah, mau gmena lagi, jadinya kmrn tergiur jg untuk sp-get install ‘kde3.4’ :d

    Hidup KDE!
    *tendang si endut nautilus*
    :-“

  7. Dari dulu mau SINAU GENTOO ndak pernah sukses :((
    Trus mau nanya NYLEWAR(agak nyamping) boleh kang PRI?
    Make Gentoo koneksi GPRS Matrix Bisa??

    Matur Suwun :)>-

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