If you've downloaded all the rpms for kde 2.1 to a single directory, try rpm -Uvh *.rpm --force. This will update existing rpms and install any new ones. You may want to install the qt rpms first. P On Friday 09 March 2001 19:09, you wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I just downloaded all of the Mandrake rpms. However, I cannot get the > upgrade to work from KDE2.1 beta 2 to KDE2.1 Final Release. I copied all > of the rpms to the same folder, and typed in: rpm -Uvh *.rpm > > The following is breakdown of the error messages: > > error: kdebase-2.1-2mdk.i586 rpm cannot be installed > error: kdegame-2.1-2mdk.i586 rpm cannot be installed > > error: failed dependencies > kdebase= 2.1-2mdk is need by kdebase-devel-2.1-2mdk > kdebase= 2.1-2mdk is need by kdebase-nsplugins-2.1-2mdk > kdegames=2.1-2mdk is need by kdegame-devel-2.1-2mdk > > PPP is needed by kdenetwork-2.1-2mdk > apmd is need by kdeutils-2.1-1mdk > libkdefakes.so.0 is need by kdebase-2.1-0.20010122.5mdk > libkdefakes.so.0 is need by kdeaddutils-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk > libkdefakes.so.0 is need by kdegames-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk > libkdefakes.so.0 is need by koffice-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk > libkdefakes.so.0 is need by quanta-2.1-0.20010122.2mdk > > What did I do wrong? I must be missing some extra files, and is there a > particular order to download the files? Your help would be very much > appreciated.