I'm starting to become of the opinion that
when one is installing distributions
such as mandrake and redhat, one should pay close
attention to software that one is *particularly* keen on.
One should *not* install these through rpm
rather one should COMPILE FROM SOURCE!!!!!!
I've had no end of troubles with (various bits of) KDE2
and its next to impossible to update *just* those bits
(eg kdemultimedia) without making a mess...
I compiled kdemultimedia from source on mandrake 7.2
after several programs from that package were causing
problems.
After the compilation those programs still cause trouble...
more in fact.
On a redhat 7 machine I forcibly removed all the kde packages
and compiled the whole kde2 set from scratch.
The result? BLISS!!!!!
Everything works (for a change)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Zeljko Vukman
> Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 4:04 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Cooker] Why no Official KDE 2.0.1 Update?
>
>
> On Thursday 07 December 2000 02:51, Steve Wray wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 06 December 2000 15:26, Daniel Tabuenca wrote:
> > > > Is there an official set of RPMS for upgrading to KDE
> 2.0.1. This is a
> > > > BUG FIX release so I think it is important that current users of
> > > > Mandrake 7.2 be able to upgrade perhaps even with the
> mandrake update
> > > > facility.
> > >
> > > You are dreaming. Mandrake has no plans to make RPMS of Kde2.0.1
> > > for Mandrake
> > > 7.2. The only available 2.0.1 will be on Cooker (which is BTW binary
> > > incompatible with 7.2). Compile yourself.
> >
> > I am not sourcecode! I am a free man!
> > Pity this doesn't go to alt.humor.best-of-usenet...
> > Sorry but I really couldn't resist that
> > (to tell the truth I didn't even try)
> >
>
> You will compile yourself when you choose to compile Kde2.0.1.
> He, he..
> Now I must be serious. Mandrake Comp. said that no final Kde-2.0.1 will be
> available for users of Mandrake 7.2.
> I compiled myself when I had to compile final Kde-2.0.1. It took
> 24 hours. I
> was totally compiled after that experience.
>
