Thanks for your reply.
At 05:00 PM 12/21/1999 +0000, you wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I have installed KDE-1.1.2 on my Mandrake/Venus system (I attempted to
> install
> > Helios, but it was such an unmitigated disaster that I reverted to
> Venus after
> > about two weeks of frusration - but that's a separate tale of woe).
> >
> > The problem is that if I click on an rpm kpackage opens and then immediatly
> > closes. Yet it works if I open it with Alt-F2.
> >
> > Another problem is that Find FIle doesn't work. If I attempt to use it
> I get
> > two Kprocess errors:
> >
> > Cann't start kpkg
> > Cann't start kiss
> >
> > Pointers to the solution(s) to the problem(s) will be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> > ---
>
>This is an "upgrade" problem. It appears to be similar to trying to
>upgrade from
>Venus to Helios. It would appear, as a guess, that there is a support library
>out there yet which is for KDE 1.1.
>
>Speaking from personal experience, Helios is superior to Venus for
>stability and
>capability, but upgrades are fraught with difficulties. Best to back up
>the data
>you want to keep and do a fresh install. Also, watch out for XFree 3.3.5
>which
>defaults video drivers to accelerated which used to be non-accelerated. I had
>difficulty with some Trident 3DI985 cards because they needed to be run in
>"noaccel" even though the driver now supports acceleration. The cheap video
>cards didn't support the accelerated mode themselves which left windows
>without
>borders and with fragmented text.
I tried both the upgrade and the fresh install route and neither one worked
for me. All in all, it was a very frustrating two weeks and a waste of
money buying the "official;" distribution.
>Civileme
Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set
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