David Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a general question about upgrading from MDK 8.2 to 9.0. Is is possible > to do an upgrade package-by-package manually? I tried doing this from 8.1->8.2 > but I had lots of libpng dependancy problems, so I did a clean install. I could > just do the upgrade option in the installer but I like having control.
You can now use urpmi of cooker, it should work (unless new bug added) it has been tested with some success (there is still some file conflicts undetectable by urpmi on some packages, more from a 8.1). > I currently have KDE3 installed in /opt/kde3 with the non-cooker packages which > were meant to be compatible with KDE2. > > I'm just wondering if there would be any major roadblocks ahead, similar to the > libpng problems I had before. I would be easy to get around those dependancy > problems by the way...just symlink to the new libpng and use the --force > option...but I don't like tricking rpm. The main problem is to upgrade urpmi by hand first (with right rpm) currently. François.
