Re: [expert] Using .rpm files to upgrade from kde 2.0.1 to kde 2.1
Problem is that kdesu is needed by some packages, but kdesu application is already included in kdebase as well. Ans there some other packages that overlap eachother. You should upgrade the packages with the options: rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force *.rpm I worked for me. Althoug it is not the most clean way of installing it worked and I read this in a README.INSTALL on kde.org . - Original Message - From: "Alan Shoemaker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 10:27 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Using .rpm files to upgrade from kde 2.0.1 to kde 2.1 Eric Krout wrote: Myself and many others have had problems upgrading to kde 2.1 from 2.0.1, even though we're all using .rpm files. I have seen a few FAQs on the web on how to do this, but none that I've seen remarked about getting any errors that prevent such an upgrade. I run a mailing list on my machine and cannot afford any downtime that could happen as a result of screwiness with a kde upgrade; however, I *really* want the newest version of Konqueror ;) So, does anyone have a solution to these problems with dependencies and symlinks that myself and many others have been getting? I don't have enough spare time and can't interrupt my uptime, so I'm looking for the easy way out since I can't experiment much on my own. Thank you *very* much. Sincerely, Eric Ericthe most painless method is to do an upgrade install of MandrakeFreq. The iso is available on the mirrors or you can by the CD (real cheap) from either: http://www.cheapbytes.com/ or http://www.lsl.com/ -- Alan
Re: [expert] Using .rpm files to upgrade from kde 2.0.1 to kde 2.1
Well, the README.INSTALL file was not correct, as it said that everything but kdebase would install without dependency problems. I ended up having to do an: rpm -Uvh --nodeps -force for about 5 of the 10 packages or so, but it works for the most part, so I can't complain. And let me be the first to say that KDE 2.1.1 is absolutely amazing. Konqueror 0wn5 GNOME -- that's all I have too say. ;-D, Eric Eric Krout Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~ekrout (Soon, EricKrout.com) Bucknell Computer Science Engineering '03 Chairman, Bucknell's Assoc. for Computing Machinery (ACM) On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Marc wrote: Problem is that kdesu is needed by some packages, but kdesu application is already included in kdebase as well. Ans there some other packages that overlap eachother. You should upgrade the packages with the options: rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force *.rpm I worked for me. Althoug it is not the most clean way of installing it worked and I read this in a README.INSTALL on kde.org . - Original Message - From: "Alan Shoemaker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 10:27 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Using .rpm files to upgrade from kde 2.0.1 to kde 2.1 Eric Krout wrote: Myself and many others have had problems upgrading to kde 2.1 from 2.0.1, even though we're all using .rpm files. I have seen a few FAQs on the web on how to do this, but none that I've seen remarked about getting any errors that prevent such an upgrade. I run a mailing list on my machine and cannot afford any downtime that could happen as a result of screwiness with a kde upgrade; however, I *really* want the newest version of Konqueror ;) So, does anyone have a solution to these problems with dependencies and symlinks that myself and many others have been getting? I don't have enough spare time and can't interrupt my uptime, so I'm looking for the easy way out since I can't experiment much on my own. Thank you *very* much. Sincerely, Eric Ericthe most painless method is to do an upgrade install of MandrakeFreq. The iso is available on the mirrors or you can by the CD (real cheap) from either: http://www.cheapbytes.com/ or http://www.lsl.com/ -- Alan
Re: [expert] Using .rpm files to upgrade from kde 2.0.1 to kde 2.1
Eric Krout wrote: Myself and many others have had problems upgrading to kde 2.1 from 2.0.1, even though we're all using .rpm files. I have seen a few FAQs on the web on how to do this, but none that I've seen remarked about getting any errors that prevent such an upgrade. I run a mailing list on my machine and cannot afford any downtime that could happen as a result of screwiness with a kde upgrade; however, I *really* want the newest version of Konqueror ;) So, does anyone have a solution to these problems with dependencies and symlinks that myself and many others have been getting? I don't have enough spare time and can't interrupt my uptime, so I'm looking for the easy way out since I can't experiment much on my own. Thank you *very* much. Sincerely, Eric Ericthe most painless method is to do an upgrade install of MandrakeFreq. The iso is available on the mirrors or you can by the CD (real cheap) from either: http://www.cheapbytes.com/ or http://www.lsl.com/ -- Alan
Re: [expert] Using .rpm files to upgrade from kde 2.0.1 to kde 2.1
Just a heads up. I did the upgrade to kde 2.1 using the RPMs, and had some (minor) bugs (features?) after the install. The two that I remember are: -in konsole, the home and end keys no longer work to move the cursor to the beginning and end of the command line -when you right click in the toolbar and then click on "Settings", nothing happens (whether logged in as user or root). I then installed MandrakeFreq with the same results. I haven't done enough testing with kde 2.1 to know if there are some other problems, but they may exist in both the install from RPMs and in MandrakeFreq. Randy Kramer Alan Shoemaker wrote: Ericthe most painless method is to do an upgrade install of MandrakeFreq. The iso is available on the mirrors or you can by the CD (real cheap) from either: http://www.cheapbytes.com/ or http://www.lsl.com/
[expert] Using .rpm files to upgrade from kde 2.0.1 to kde 2.1
Myself and many others have had problems upgrading to kde 2.1 from 2.0.1, even though we're all using .rpm files. I have seen a few FAQs on the web on how to do this, but none that I've seen remarked about getting any errors that prevent such an upgrade. I run a mailing list on my machine and cannot afford any downtime that could happen as a result of screwiness with a kde upgrade; however, I *really* want the newest version of Konqueror ;) So, does anyone have a solution to these problems with dependencies and symlinks that myself and many others have been getting? I don't have enough spare time and can't interrupt my uptime, so I'm looking for the easy way out since I can't experiment much on my own. Thank you *very* much. Sincerely, Eric Eric Krout Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~ekrout (Soon, EricKrout.com) Bucknell Computer Science Engineering '03 Chairman, Bucknell's Assoc. for Computing Machinery (ACM)
