Ron Stodden wrote:
>
> Marc Siegel wrote:
> >
> > > KDE 2.1 final binary RPMs for Mandrake 7.2 are now in the
> > > mandrake-devel/unsupported/KDE-2.1 directory on the mirrors.
> > >
> > > I wish I knew who to give credit to for this work ...
> > >
> > > I am glad they are in a subdirectory of their own; it makes updating
> > > so easy.
> >
> > How does this make updating easy? What program do you use to upgrade?
>
> If you just want to upgrade KDE and nothing else you just navigate to
> this subdirectory, open a terminal there (^T) and run rpm -Uvh
> *.rpm. QED!
>
> Without the subdirectory, you would have to manually extract all the
> relevant RPMs (how to tell?) into a work directory first. This is
> error-prone,
>
> rpm must be given all the RPMs to install in one hit - that's the
> only way to get the mutual dependencies properly organised.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Ron. [au]
Ya know...it just doesn't feel right without Chris. Anyone know how to
get in touch with him?
--
Mark
"If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being
worthless,"
"Sharing is what makes them powerful."
