Upgrade from Backtrack 4 Beta to final

Backtrack 4 was released today. I had just completed downloading the
beta version only yesterday and finished installing it today. Since
BT4 has now moved to Ubuntu, I’d assumed that upgrading it to the
final would be easy as apt-get pie. I did and pretty much hosed KDE. A
little research showed that KDE is now in a different path (/opt/kde3)
than it was before (/usr/kde3).

The quickest hack to fix this is to add /usr/kde3 to the PATH line in
your .bashrc . This still doesn’t start KDE when you type startx
however. I resorted to another (sigh) hack to make this run as I badly
needed BT4 for work. echo “exec startkde” > ~/.xinitrc fixes that
issue.
This is cheap hackery. I’m sure there are better ways to fix this.