I just installed the KDE 2.1.1 rpms from texstar without a hitch on 7.2.
Works fine here.
Stan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Benjamin Sher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 3:28 PM
Subject: [newbie] WARNING: Forget KDE 2.1.1 from Texstar!
> Dear friends:
>
> My deep apologies. I assumed that the KDE 2.1.1 files (and the Mozilla
0.8.1
> files) at Texstar (http://texstar.dyn.dhs.org), which claims be an
> exclusively LM72 rpm site, would have produced rpms that work with LM72's
rpm
> version 3.0 and that they would also supply rpms for all dependencies.
>
> That's why I didn't even bother to test their KDE 2.1.1 before making my
> announcement. Furthermore, while their Mozilla 0.8 (based on the Feb. 17,
> 2001 version) installs and works perfectly (except for Mozilla's fonts bug
in
> Preferences), their Mozilla 0.8.1 installs with two major error messages,
> neither of which I understand:
>
> 1) runtime mismatch
> 2) leaking context
>
> I've therefore aborted installation of both KDE 2.1.1 and Mozilla 0.8.1.
>
> Perhaps Texstar is not aware of the rpm incompatibility issue (LM72 uses
rpm
> version 3, LM-8, i.e. Cooker, uses rpm version 4).
>
> My apologies again.
>
> Yours,
>
> Benjamin
> --
> Sher's Russian Web
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> Benjamin and Anna Sher
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
