[crossposted to comp.windows.x.kde, alt.os.linux.slackware, and
alt.os.linux.mandrake - please manage followups intelligently, thanks.]

On Saturday 18 September 2004 02:53 pm, Hallvard Tangeraas did deign to
grace us with the following:

> I recently installed the Mandrake Linux 10.0 package which I'm starting to
> get the hang of now, and for email I use Kmail.
>
> Today I read, on the Kmail website (http://kmail.kde.org/) that there's a
> serious bug to the version of Kmail (1.6.1) that came with Mandrake 10.0
> that I'm using, which can lead to lost mail, so I want to upgrade as
> quickly as possibly, but how?

Toss Manduck and install Slackware. Then you can use "upgradepkg". :-)
And there's prebuilt packages available for 3.3.
>
> As a newbie I don't want to mess around with the command line, and even
> though "KDEpim 3.3" and a bunch of other files showed up in the "Install
> software" option of KDE, I'm very confused as to which file(s) to download
> in order to do the upgrade. I also don't want to end up messing things up
> because it's more complicated than I thought, and stuff that I can't
> grasp.
>
> So, which file(s) do I download, and how do I do this?
>
http://download.kde.org/download.php?url=stable/3.3/
http://www.kde.org/info/3.3.php

Apparently kmail is embedded in kdepim now.

Have Fun!
Rich