[newbie] Alan - Help, I can't take it anyore. Trying KDE 2.0 to KDE 2.01
OK, lets just try the first upgrade and see if that will work. Sorry, thanks for playing but no upgrade for you. error: failed dependencies: kdelibs = 2.0 is needed by kdelibs-sound-2.0-5mdk I downloaded kdelibs-2.01-2mdk.i586.rpm and it is sitting in the download directory w/all the other files? Now what? This is the same problem I run into if I use DrakConf, Software Update: Kdelibs Kdesound Licq gtk+licq. each says it needs the other. I am smiling see :-) , not mad.
Re: [newbie] Alan - Help, I can't take it anyore. Trying KDE 2.0 to KDE 2.01
In my experience and humble opinion, Upgrades are always evil! It either doesn't add something, or it's unstable. I've tried this with many OS's, meanwhile Windows is the worst at this, but I did upgrade 7.1 to 7.2 and it burped or something because it wouldn't read my .bashrc. The system would function, but I had to source my .aliases and other files in order to read them. After I just reinstalled, everything worked fine. That machine's been up ever since. [timh@yoda timh]$ uptime 9:36am up 54 days, 9:41, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 What I do suggest, is to install /home on a different partition, or drive all together if at a possible. So when you do reinstall the system, you don't format /home so the user directories are only updated with new info that's needed. So you will be able to keep your aliases and .*rc files for various apps you've already used and configured. From there you just have to install some of the software you installed before you did the new install. I also install a developmental workstation because it tosses in a lot of extra libs and what not. I don't have many problems with getting errors on the depancies when I do that. But my first machine was a workstation and I would get those depandency errors all the time. So there's my $.02, and I can make change! lol tdh T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real Men use Vi." * g [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010409 08:47]: | | OK, lets just try the first upgrade and see if that will work. Sorry, thanks | for playing but no upgrade for you. | | error: failed dependencies: | kdelibs = 2.0 is needed by kdelibs-sound-2.0-5mdk | | I downloaded kdelibs-2.01-2mdk.i586.rpm and it is sitting in the download | directory w/all the other files? | | Now what? This is the same problem I run into if I use DrakConf, Software | Update: | | Kdelibs Kdesound | Licq gtk+licq. | | each says it needs the other. | | I am smiling see :-) , not mad.
RE: [newbie] Alan - Help, I can't take it anyore. Trying KDE 2.0 to KDE 2.01
Title: RE: [newbie] Alan - Help, I can't take it anyore. Trying KDE 2.0 to KDE 2.01 If you do what I did, that is install using the --nodeps, the files should work fine and your installation can proceed. Just load up one or the other with nodeps and then the next one should have no dependency problems. Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of g Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 6:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Alan - Help, I can't take it anyore. Trying KDE 2.0 to KDE 2.01 OK, lets just try the first upgrade and see if that will work. Sorry, thanks for playing but no upgrade for you. error: failed dependencies: kdelibs = 2.0 is needed by kdelibs-sound-2.0-5mdk I downloaded kdelibs-2.01-2mdk.i586.rpm and it is sitting in the download directory w/all the other files? Now what? This is the same problem I run into if I use DrakConf, Software Update: Kdelibs Kdesound Licq gtk+licq. each says it needs the other. I am smiling see :-) , not mad.
Re: [newbie] Alan - Help, I can't take it anyore. Trying KDE 2.0 to KDE 2.01
g wrote: I downloaded kdelibs-2.01-2mdk.i586.rpm and it is sitting in the download directory w/all the other files? each says it needs the other. You can specify more than one file on the command line to be installed. Assuming that all the required rpm files are in ~/rpms, you can do the following: rpm -ivvh ~/rpms/* and it will install them all (providing that all dependencies are met). If it complains about more rpm dependencies, download those and repeat. Be aware that you can mess some things up by upgrading only partially. You seem to be ok as you're only trying to upgrade KDE from 2.0 to 2.01. If you were trying to upgrade from 1.x to 2.x, that would be a different story. -- Blue skies... Todd | Get a bigger hammer! | Sometimes you get what you want. | | http://www.mrball.net | Sometimes you get experience. | | http://faq.mrball.net | --unknown origin |
