Re: [expert] I am in KDE HELL

[Jason Greenwood]

Ok, I'm with you now. I know plenty of people who have 9.0 and would burn it for you for free (if you replaced the CD's for them). I am sure you do as well. If not, I suggest giving your location (roughly) to the list to see if there is someone near you who is willing to burn you a copy of 9.0. >From there, simply upgrade the kernel to the cooker one (it works, I know, I run Cooker at home) and you're all set. I see what you are trying to accomplish it is just that in my experience, trying to update *components* of a system, especially with such a big jump in Libs, GCC etc. is difficult and fails miserably.

Wish you all the best anyway.

Regards

J

Praedor Atrebates wrote:

On Sunday 15 December 2002 16:13, Jason Greenwood wrote:
  

Ok, I offer 2 possible solutions for you then. Download the 9.0 ISO's
for free (or have them burned to CD by someone you know who already has
them) and upgrade the lot (or just upgrade KDE by adding the 3 9.0 CD's
as sources in URPMI). Download the (Cooker) KDE RPM's via RPMdrake, and
then satisfy the dependencies the same way. I just don't understand why
you can't do the downloads (for free) that you need instead of going
through the hassle of compiling something that requires vastly different
libs etc. than the system you are currently running. Just my .0002c worth.
    

This all started when I noticed that kde 3.0.3 wasn't working properly on my 
desktop (the problems with konqueror and javascript and any and all netscape 
plugins).  On my laptop kde 3.0.3 works perfectly fine.  Both systems are 
running 8.2.  

I cannot do the iso download because I am stuck with a 56k dialup with a time 
limit per call (university rules).  There is NO proper option for broadband 
that would make downloading ISOs and whatnot doable.  If not for the kernel 
problems with 9.0 I would be quite happy buying the boxed set to make it easy 
but the kernel IS defective vs 8.2 (supermount is important and I had nothing 
but problems with usb devices with it as well when I tried the 2.4.19 
kernel).  

While writing this, my latest attempt at kdemultimedia succeeded...but not the 
rpm.  I installed the src rpm and tried several times to build the rpm.  
Nope.  I then did my last option in such cases and went right to the 
/usr/src/RPM/BUILD directory and did an old-fashioned ./configure && make && 
make install in the kdemultimedia directory.  More often than not, if an rpm 
fails to build due to some (usually) bogus error, building the source 
directly works.  This would appear to indicate a defect in the spec (or 
other?) rpm-specific config.

praedor

  

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