On Wednesday 03 January 2001 00:21, you wrote: > All I have now is 33 rpm files in a dir and I have no idea what > to do next.. when I try to unpack a file it says it can't because > it depends on another file.. I'm really confused here :) > > -Johan- You may need to go through clearing out the conflicts on the previous version files with rpm -e--you need to be root, and logged into your directory of rpm files to make the following instructions work. I suggest starting up in Graphic mode in IceWM and opening a terminal (DON'T do this in KDE) first get a report with rpm -Uvh *.rpm There is a dependency of one package on a library not included (libkscan)--use rpm --nodeps filename to get that one in. For the packages showing conflict, build a list of installed packages conflicting with rpm -q (just the beginning of the filename showing the conflict up to the first -) rpm -e (the filename reported back) to delete the old rmp -ivh filename.rpm to install the new and then move the file out of the directory When you are past the conflicts, do all the packages you have left with rpm -F *.rpm while you are logged in as root to that directory Then, still logged in as root, type these three commands and go for coffee (don't wait for the first command to finish) updatedb rpm --rebuilddb update-menus -v When you return in 30 minutes or so, type one carriage return, log out and log in as a user with KDE. You should have 2.1 running--you may need to log in twice to make everything work. Civileme
