RE: [expert] KDE3.0 install on LM8.2

[Tony S. Sykes]

Nick,

The last week in newbie they have had full installation instructions,
but what you missed was the urpmi.addmedia which creates a directory for
kde3. (Don't worry I did the same ;).)

-Original Message-
From: Nick Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 01 May 2002 11:59
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] KDE3.0 install on LM8.2


I installed the KDE3.0 packages last night, just to take a look. They
failed to install properly. As instructed (by the Mandrake web page) I
downloaded all the rpms and then ran 'urpmi *' in the download
directory. It failed on kdesdk and asked me if I wanted to try without
dependancy checking. I said yes and it failed again, compaining about a
cpio error in kdesdk. It asked if I wanted to --force it, I said yes an
it installed, without kdesdk.

I logged out, but KDE3 was not available from KDM. So I rebooted and
there is was. I logged in, made a few changes as mentioned in the "known
problems" sections of the install instructions and everything appears to
work fine (well, kstars crashes as it starts up). I had a look around
and was impressed.

I eventually logged out and my other half logged in to check her e-mail.
She did not select KDE3, but got it anyway. Logging out and reselecting
plain KDE (i.e. not the KDE3 selection) from kdm also resulted in
getting KDE3. I didn't want to force the upgrade on other users yet. Is
it possible to still run KDE2 from kdm while the KDE3 install is
present?

Thanks,
Nick.
 
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[expert] KDE3.0 install on LM8.2

[Nick Thompson]

I installed the KDE3.0 packages last night, just to take a look. They failed to 
install properly. As instructed (by the Mandrake web page) I downloaded all the rpms 
and then ran 'urpmi *' in the download directory. It failed on kdesdk and asked me if 
I wanted to try without dependancy checking. I said yes and it failed again, 
compaining about a cpio error in kdesdk. It asked if I wanted to --force it, I said 
yes an it installed, without kdesdk.

I logged out, but KDE3 was not available from KDM. So I rebooted and there is was. I 
logged in, made a few changes as mentioned in the "known problems" sections of the 
install instructions and everything appears to work fine (well, kstars crashes as it 
starts up). I had a look around and was impressed.

I eventually logged out and my other half logged in to check her e-mail. She did not 
select KDE3, but got it anyway. Logging out and reselecting plain KDE (i.e. not the 
KDE3 selection) from kdm also resulted in getting KDE3. I didn't want to force the 
upgrade on other users yet. Is it possible to still run KDE2 from kdm while the KDE3 
install is present?

Thanks,
Nick.





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