What if we trailing-edge types totally deinstall our 1.1.x systems, then try to install kde2 from source? Ron Praedor Tempus wrote: > > Thanks. It still also resides in SOME (very few) kde mirrors. > > Here's the big question...did you actually install it and get it > working? > > After downloading and installing, all was wrong with the world. First, > installing it, even with menu-3.0.5-43mdk installed, it segfaults during > the rpm install on /usr/bin/upgrade-menus. Both qt2 and kde rpms > segfault > it. Once it IS all installed, the system is broken. SOME things work, > most > do not. > > Looking deeper into it, even though I got NO dependency missing > messages, > it appears that you HAVE to "upgrade" just about every rpm on your > system > to 7.2beta or Cooker level - all because you need to upgrade menu, > apparently, > even beyond menu-2.1.5-43mdk, because of the segfaults on > upgrade-menus. To > upgrade menu, to 4.0, which is all that is left, you must upgrade glibc > to > glibc-2.1.95 or 2.1.96. Doing THIS will break all the other rpms on > your > system, so you must upgrade them as well. > > It APPEARS that the "stable" kde 2.0 cannot be used except on an > unstable, > beta-only distro like 7.2beta or Cooker. There is a README I read on > one > mirror yesterday that indicated you could run kde 2.0 on other mandrake > versions, but you had to upgrade a few rpms (pam, menu, a COUPLE > others). > Problem is, it is NOT a few rpms. As I described above, to "simply" > upgrade > menu alone requires an entire cascade of other upgrades to satisfy > dependencies. > > At least with RedHat, though they offer glibc-2.1.95 (and 2.1.96) they > ALSO > have a glibc-compat rpm NOT for OLD glibc, but for the previous glibc > that > was in RedHat 6.2, which is essentially 2.1.3. No such beast exists for > Mandrake so if you upgrade glibc to upgrade menu to install kde 2.0, you > break everything. In for a penny, in for a pound. > > praedor > > philomena wrote: > > > > here's one... > > > > http://ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/kde/stable/2.0/distribution/rpm/Mandrake/ > > > > Praedor Tempus wrote: > > > > > > Real nice. Yesterday, kde releases, finally, the stable, > > > final kde-2.0. Yesterday you could download it from > > > mandrake cooker, from rpmfind, from every mirror > > > known to man. > [...] -- +----------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +----------------------------------------------------------+
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