Well, I haven't upgrade MDK 9.2 to KDE 3.2 but I have spent lots of time dealing with RPM and urpmi, so maybe I can be of some assistance. First of all, it would be helpfull if you would post the error messages that you are getting, but it sound to me like it is standard dependancy/conflict types of issues. Usually it's just a matter of following the error messages that RPM gives you. For example if it says that one package requires another package or a library like libsomething.so.1, and urpmi cannot find it, then you can go on the net and look for it. Google and rpmfind.net are good places to start. Let me just go over the basics of setting up urpmi, so you can make sure you are doing things properly. First of all, make sure you add your KDE 3.2 sources using urpmi.update or the Software Sources Manager is the MDK control centre. Second of all make sure that you have your Main source in there (your install cd's or a MDK mirror). You should also make sure that you have a Contrib source, and maybe some other ones like PLF and texstar. This way you will have less dependancy problems because urpmi will have more software packages in its database. To get these sources check out Easy Urpmi at http://plf.zarb.org/ and it will give you the command to add Main, Contrib and plf sources. Then use the command: # urpmi.update -a to make sure that all of your sources are up to date. Then use a command like: # urpmi kde-base and it should install the latest kde-base package and all its deps. You can also use urpm* to remove software with a command such as: # urpme kde-base
Good luck, Jesse Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > Hi all, > > Ok I give up. How does one upgrade to KDE 3.2 on MDK 9.2? I was looking > around the net and found a URPMI mirror for KDE 3.2. As per instructions I > found > after digging around for a long time i do: > > urpmi --auto-select > > The KDE 3.2 packages wont install because of conflicts and I've tried to > remove the old KDE with the package management tools and the command line > (without X running). But I really don't know what I am doing. I feel dumb > > now :) Can anyone help? > > Kev > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
