On Saturday 03 March 2001 20:24, you wrote:
> On Saturday 03 March 2001 11:52, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> > So sprach Ray am Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 09:14:03AM +0000:
> > > What is the best way to upgrade 7.2 to KDE 2.1?
> > > which oreder to install the packages?
> >
> > All at once, I'd say: rpm -Uvh *
>
> No. You'll get all the other languages installed that you'll likely never
> use unless you did a selective download. You probably don't need all the
> -devel packages installed either.
>
> rpm -Fvh *.rpm to just freshen the packages you've already got installed.
>
> disclaimer: I haven't tried it yet - can't afford any problems for the
> weekend on my M7.2 system.
rpm -F is not a good idea on this one--the changes are rather drastic.
First of all, install apmd if you don't already have it (rpm -qa|grep apm
should tell you)
Then get into a terminal or the console after you D/L the packages you
want--your language plus any others you desire and all those devels only if
you want them--the rest are really required.
If you installed to /tmp/KDE, for example
# cd /tmp/KDE
# urpme arts
# urpme koffice
# urpme kde
# urpme qt2
# rpm -ivh *rpm
# rpm --rebuilddb # not necessary but sheesh you just installed 80 Mb
# exit
logout
login to KDE
Voila!
There a few broken links. Keystone will crash if you do not have a valid
network (signal 11 crash) Ksysv will not recognize root when he tries to use
it and so will not allow any edits, KDevelop will insist you never gave it
the right path to one of the libs (just hit cancel and it finishes install).
kdeaddutils is not there and KOffice is not there. You might want to try the
rpm -F or set aside some older koffice rpms to reload.
Civileme
