[ILUG] Upgrading KDE from 1.x to 2.1?

[Cormac McClean]

Hi,

Has anyone upgraded to KDE2.1 from 1.x? I had imagined
that I could either
a) install the KDE2 binaries (separate from the existing
binaries for KDE1) and then re-configure my system to use
KDE2;
or
b) upgrade to the KDE2 binaries using rpm -U.

(I'm running SuSE 7.0).

Neither approaches have worked; some of the package files
are specific to KDE2 and so do not affect the existing KDE1
system; however, the KDE2 kdelibs package is not in the form
kdelibs2, i.e. it conflicts with the existing kdelibs. When
I tried to upgrade to this it complains about dependencies
with KDE1 applications.

So, I'm thinking that a third method would be to delete the
/opt/kde directory (or more carefully uninstall KDE1) and 
install KDE2.1 from scratch.

The documentation for KDE installation (www.kde.org/documentation)
does not include details on upgrading (or at least, I can't find
any such info).  The details are given a basic installation.

What should I do? 

Thanks in advance,
Cormac.

P.S. Any answers along the lines of "Use Gnome" will be 
ignored!!