Dennis Myers wrote:
>
> On Friday 09 March 2001 20:17, you wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > Do to the lack of a readme file, I ran an rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force
> > *.rpm, as I was getting all sorts of dependency errors while upgrading
> > from KDE2.1 beta 2 to KDE2.1 Final Release. Bad idea. I had to reinstall
> > MDK7.2.
> >
> > I'm back to square one KDE2. Which rpms are need to upgrade to the final
> > release and in which order?
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Roman
> > Registered Linux User #179293
> Roman this is exactly the way I did it and I had no problem except with
> printing, I broke cups somehow. So, the thing is did you really have the
> install from KDE2.1beta2 or a lower release? My install of 2.1 final was on
> top of the beta 2 and I had to add two other packages I can't remeber and add
> "apdm" package. Wait I'll look and see what they were, (into konsole looking
> at kpackage) ok, I think it was libg++ and a glibc package. Then I went to
> console mode completely out of KDE and used the rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force
> *.rpm and then did the rpm --rebuilddb and then upgrade-menus -v and
> then rebooted and here I am back with KDE2.1 If this is the same way that
> you did it I do not understand the problem except.......... Civileme
> indicated that you should be sure and do the hdparm -d1 /dev/hd? with the
> question mark being your harddrive letter. That optimisation may be the
> difference? I have just reached the end of my knowledge base, hope something
> in all that mess helps you.
> --
> Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842
I installed from KDE2.1 beta 2. However, I was missing ppp and apmd. I
have no idea what Libkdefakes.so.0 is used for? Should I upgrade from
KDE2 to KDE2.1 beta 2 and then take it from there?
Roman
