Mandriva Linux 2010 and its KDE 4.4 Upgrade

“I’ve been happily using Mandriva 2010 as my desktop system
since its release last November. The few issues I’ve had could be
traced back to KDE 4.3.2. I had run the Update Manager a couple
times at the beginning, but soon became lax and haven’t updated
since. Honestly, I just didn’t want to risk an upgrade ruining what
was essentially a completely enjoyable experience. But when Juan
Luis Baptiste posted that KDE 4.4 packages were available for
Mandriva 2010, it seemed worth risking a re-install. So, I girded
my loins, drew my sword, and copied and pasted those fateful
words:

“urpmi.addmedia kde-4.4.0
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/4.4.0/Mandriva/i586

“urpmi –auto-update –auto-select

“Since I hadn’t updated since last November, urpmi had its work
cut out for itself. A total of 691 packages were needed to update
my system and install the new KDE packages, but I let it do it to
it. It didn’t take long at all, but when it was finished I was
advised to reboot due to the kernel upgrade. So I did. Once I moved
my ~/.kde4 directory (just to be on the safe side) and ran XFdrake
to install my preferred NVIDIA proprietary drivers for the new
kernel, I was ready to take a gander. Behold, my default Mandriva
2010 KDE 4.4 desktop:”

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