On Thursday 05 April 2001 15:01, you wrote:
> Terry wrote:
> > I have been having sooooooo many problems upgrading to
> > KDE 2.1.1 from KDE 2.0.1 running under LM 7.2 .. I
> > have tried every single installation instruction that
> > someone has posted, and none of them work (even KDE's
> > instructions!) .. i even uninstalled KDE 2.0.1 and
> > then tried to install 2.1.1, and still get dependency
> > errors. And when I install the RPM's, I have to use
> > the --nodeps option, regardless. Everything seems to
> > work fine, but when I reboot, the graphical logon
> > screen for KDE starts to appear, then disappears, and
> > I'm stuck at the console. Can anyone help? This is
> > getting to be VERY frustrating!!
> >
> > Terry Sheltra
>
> Terry....when you have a dependancy error then you need to
> make sure that the file specified in the error gets installed
> on your system. To do that you need to locate the .rpm file
> that the file specified in the error is part of and install
> it. This needs to be done for every file that is specified
> in the dependency error messages that are displayed by the
> rpm program.
>
> If you use --nodeps to force rpm to install a package that is
> giving you a dependancy error then that package will be
> broken and not work untill the dependency is resolved.
>
> The --nodeps switch can be used to make reluctant .rpm files
> install, but the package will only work properly if the
> dependency you forced rpm to ignore is bogus. But, how do
> you know if a dependency is bogus? On my system the last
> remaining dependency that was not allowing 2.1.1 to install
> was kdesu. A search of my rpm database showed that kdesu was
> installed (and I use kdesu all the time so I already knew it
> was on the system).
>
> I figured that this was a bogus dependency. So with all
> other dependencies already resolved I went ahead and
> installed the 2.1.1 .rpms with the --nodeps switch. Then
> after doing a 'rpm --rebuilddb', running the update-menus
> program and rebooting the system, version 2.1.1 of KDE worked.
This is all well and good except that for me the dependencies list keeps
growing with every file that I add to satisfy the previous dependencies list.
I can not find the missing link, but something is seriously wrong with the
install.
--
Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842
