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dale77

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Registered: 2007-02-10

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pacman -S in KDE

Hello,

is it recommended/safe to install software from the KDE graphical environment in Arch?

Currently I'm dropping out to a console login to install packages. Do I need to do this, or can I just open up a root konsole in KDE?

Thanks!

Dale

Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: pacman -S in KDE

Opening a root konsole is OK.

dale77

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From: Down under

Registered: 2007-02-10

Posts: 102

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Re: pacman -S in KDE

Thanks! That'll make things a bit easier.

Dale

brain0

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From: Aachen - Germany

Registered: 2005-01-03

Posts: 1,382

Re: pacman -S in KDE

Careful: gnome-session and terminal had a bug where they would crash when dbus was updated while they were running (those bugs were fixed though). I didn't see anything like this in KDE yet. But to be safe, you could start the upgrade procedure inside a screen (pacman -S screen, man screen).

rabid_dog

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Registered: 2006-06-07

Posts: 23

Re: pacman -S in KDE

Just install and remove some packages is perfectly OK.
If you upgrading whole system (pacman -Suy), after this you need to restart KDE session, (at least after KDE upgrade, it seems that currenly running apps does not want to see new libs)