Ron,
Thanks very much for this reply! It may be a few days until I work up
my nerve to try it again. When I do, I may have a few questions -- I'll
be sure to let you know.
Assuming it works for me, do you have any objection to me "publishing"
it to my local LUG, to comp.windows.x.kde, and to a wiki that I'm
working on (not up yet)?
Thanks again!
Randy Kramer
Ron Stodden wrote:
>
> Randy Kramer wrote:
> >
> > I've had some troubles attempting to upgrade kde 2.0 to 2.1 in Mandrake
> > 7.2. I would like three things:
> >
>
> You can quite happily install KDE 2.1 with KDE running, as long as
> you reboot immediately it is done.
>
> Don't use any --nodeps or --force unless you know exactly what you
> are doing.
>
> It's not too difficult:
>
> 1. Download the unsupported/KDE2.1 directory and set to there in a
> terminal window.
>
> 2. rpm -Uvh --test *.rpm
>
> This will show you the difficulties.
>
> 3. Install the apmd rpm if it expected to find it.
>
> 4. Install the ppp rpm if it expected to find it.
>
> 5. If you have a libarts2 rpm installed delete it.
>
> 6. rpm -Uvh --test *.rpm
>
> again. All should be clean now.
>
> 7. If kdelibfakes.so.0 persists, do an install of libarts2 from the
> KDE 2.1 directory.
>
> 8. rpm -Uvh --test *.rpm
>
> All is clean?
>
> 9. Remove the libarts2 rpm
>
> 8. rpm -Uvh *.rpm
>
> If any kdelibfakes errors you MAY have to repeat with --nodeps.
>
> 10. Run rpm --rebuild
>
> 11. Run makemenu -v
>
> 12. Reboot.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Ron. [au]
