Is It Possible to Upgrade YDL?

Andrew yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Wed, 28 Apr 2004 23:18:31 -0400


On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 23:06, Andrew wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 22:11, Ed Sutherland wrote:
> > I have YDL 3.0.1, but notice how the apps are one or two versions 
> > behind the latest stable (I didn't say bleeding-edge) release. Is there 
> > any way to upgrade the major apps -- KDE, Gnome? After trying almost 
> > every PPC distro -- Gentoo, Debian, Mandrake -- YDL is the easiest to 
> > install (and that's saying something when it comes to Linux) and most 
> > Mac-friendly distribution available. I just want newer versions 
> > (especially Gnome) of my favorite apps and window environments.  Thanks.
> > 
> > Ed
> 
> I'd like to update KDE and GNOME too. I tried compiling KDE 3.2 using
> konstruct but it was not even completed after a whole week! ouch
> 
> I will contact KDE team right now and ask ppc.rpms for YellowDog. 
> Maybe they will hear me ;)

I spoke up too fast, once again:
 <http://www.kde.org/download/packagepolicy.php>
Its up to us, the users, to contribute and/or to TerraSoft to provide
those binaries.

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