KDE 4.2.4 Released
The KDE Team announced the immediate release of KDE 4.2.4, here’s the announcement below:
KDE Community Improves Desktop with KDE 4.2.4
KDE Community Ships Fourth Translation and Service Release of the 4.2 Free Desktop, Containing Numerous Bugfixes, Performance Improvements and Translation Updates
June 2nd, 2009. Another month has passed, and the KDE Community announces the immediate availability of KDE 4.2.4, another bugfix and maintenance update for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop. This is a monthly update to KDE 4.2. It ships with a desktop workspace and many cross-platform applications such as administration programs, network tools, educational applications, utilities, multimedia software, games, artwork, development tools and more. KDE’s award-winning tools and applications are available in more than 50 languages.
KDE 4.2.4 is the last release planned for the KDE 4.2 series, which will be followed up by KDE 4.3 at the end of July, 6 months after KDE 4.2 was released. In the case that a security issue or another grave bug arises, there might be a KDE 4.2.5, of course.
The KDE 4.2 Desktop
KDE, including all its libraries and its applications, is available for free under Open Source licenses. KDE can be obtained in source and various binary formats from http://download.kde.org and can also be obtained on CD-ROM or with any of the major GNU/Linux and UNIX systems shipping today.
Enhancements
As a service release, the changelog contains a list of bugfixes and improvements. Notable improvements include, but are not limited to:
Okular (KDE’s document viewer) now correctly supports selecting the pages to print using the PostScript backend.
KMail has received a whole slew of bug fixes
So has KHTML and therefore the Konqueror web browser
Note that the changelog is usually incomplete, for a complete list of changes that went into KDE 4.2.4, you can browse the Subversion log. KDE 4.2.4 also ships a more complete set of translations.
To find out more about the KDE 4.2.x desktop and applications, please refer to the KDE 4.2.0, KDE 4.1.0 and KDE 4.0.0 release notes. KDE 4.2.4 is a recommended update for everyone running KDE 4.2.2 or earlier
As usual the openSUSE Build Service managers already have the 4.2.4 packages ready for installtion on the repository. You can install it by doing:
sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/42/openSUSE_11.1/ KDE\ 4
sudo zypper mr -r KDE\ 4
sudo zypper up -y -r KDE\ 4
Be sure to add the KDE 4 backport repository also.
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>> Be sure to add the KDE 4 backport repository also.
May I ask why? Just curiosity, don’t get me wrong
I’m on 4.2.4 now without backport repository and feel really happy. Looking at the package list here
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Backports/openSUSE_11.1/x86_64/
I can’t see why I need to add that repository. There are some newer _builds_, OK, but not newer _versions_.
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Didn’t work for me. This is the output:
> sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/42/openSUSE_11.1/ KDE\ 4
Adding repository ‘KDE 4′ [done]
Repository ‘KDE 4′ successfully added
Enabled: Yes
Autorefresh: No
URI: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/42/openSUSE_11.1/
> sudo zypper mr -r KDE\ 4
Autorefresh has been enabled for repository ‘KDE 4′.
> sudo zypper up -y -r KDE\ 4
New repository or package signing key received:
Key ID: 58D8FF412E1EFA87
Key Name: KDE OBS Project
Key Fingerprint: 0C4A3732F7B890502C66BE8458D8FF412E1EFA87
Repository: KDE 4
Do you want to reject the key, trust temporarily, or trust always? [R/t/a/?]: r
Retrieving repository ‘KDE 4′ metadata [error]
Repository ‘KDE 4′ is invalid.
Signature verification failed for repomd.xml
Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository.
Warning: Disabling repository ‘KDE 4′ because of the above error.
Loading repository data…
Reading installed packages…
Nothing to do.
@LB
You have to accept the key, as long as you trust them.
@RGB
I’ve run into past issues where something in the backport repository was required (I think it was qt, and was with KDE 4.1 to 4.2.. not 100% sure though, so to simplify things I just add it). This is also required when upgrading GNOME.
I think the commands you have up there have a typo. The space between “KDE” and “4″ should not be there and it should be “KDE4″. See the error below if the space is NOT removed.
minsl:~ # zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/42/openSUSE_11.1/ KDE 4
Too many arguments.
Usage:
addrepo (ar) [options]
addrepo (ar) [options]
Add a repository to the sytem. The repository can be specified by its URI or can be read from specified .repo file (even remote).
Command options:
-r, –repo Just another means to specify a .repo file to read.
-t, –type Type of repository (yast2, rpm-md, plaindir).
-d, –disable Add the repository as disabled.
-c, –check Probe URI.
-C, –no-check Don’t probe URI, probe later during refresh.
-n, –name Specify descriptive name for the repository.
-k, –keep-packages Enable RPM files caching.
-K, –no-keep-packages Disable RPM files caching.
-f, –refresh Enable autorefresh of the repository.
@nilesh
Thank you for pointing that out.. I guess I forgot to add \. Thanks.. post has been updated.
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I used the commands as per your instructions:
sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/42/openSUSE_11.1/ KDE\ 4
sudo zypper mr -r KDE\ 4
sudo zypper up -y -r KDE\ 4
There is now a repository in the Yast list that corresponds to KDE4, so that is ok. Otherewise, all I get from the zypper is “Nothing to do”. Clearly there is some (probably obvious) step, viz. update KDE4, that I need to do as the Computer -> System Information shows KDE 4.1.3, which is what I had all along. IMHO, I think it would be useful to mention this missing step in your now widely accepted blog.
OldAl.