Hi to all, I am back again In the last weeks I made some experience installing some times MDK 7.2 in various configurations, some large, some small, and then upgrading RPM to 2.4 to install with it newer versions of KDE, Python, perl, and it seemed to work well. Neverthless, till my last message, I wasn't able to fix a couple of side effects the upgrading originated. The first appears during upgrading: I receive a perl message claiming that locales ar not set, but I upgraded locales too with no change. How can I check how locales are and eventually set it? The second problem is that after upgrading I cannot use anymore neither kpackage nor Drakconf-Package manager. At a first glance I thought it was due to different versions of KDE required, but upgrading KDE too didn't fix the problem, so I think I have failed to upgrade some mid-level interface program. To be more specific, if I click on an RPM package I see a Package manager flash on the tool bar and no more. Can someone help me again? I have even understood the suggestions of directly installing plain cooker instead of upgrading only RPM. This way cuts off at once all the dependencies problems. But for me it has the disadvantage of downloading all the cooker and it's impratical with my actual connection. I have found preferable to make a new 7.2 installation keeping installed packages to a minimum: I have a suggestion/reqest for the next 7.3 installer: could expert mode start with a minimal system, like automatic mode instead of trying to install a consistent percentage of his target partition space? Actually the difference between an automatic installation and a minimal (15% of suggested) expert installation is 300 MB of unnecessary programs. And it's a lot easier adding programs instead of deleting them, with the risk of deleting even some mandatory for normal use. And, at last, I could write a summing up report. Do you think it would be useful for future help? Thank You to all, and good week Alberto Vorano
