civileme wrote:
>
> On Friday 29 December 2000 11:16, you wrote:
> > Ok...I've followed the directions, done everything that was to be done, and
> > still I get the same stinking, anoying, almost M$-like error. I've got ALL
> > the KDE2.0.1 RPM's downloaded and in the same dir. And STILL there's a
> > problem of one type or another. Theres something I'm just not getting.
> >
> > Anyway, heres the console message when testing the KDE RPM upgrade
> > installation;
> >
> > [root@mdw1982 KDE2.0.1]# rpm -Uvh --test *.rpm
> > error: kdebase-2.0.1-1mdk.i586.rpm cannot be installed
> > error: failed dependencies:
> > kdelibs = 2.0 is needed by kdelibs-sound-2.0-5mdk
> > kdelibs = 2.0 is needed by kdelibs-devel-2.0-5mdk
> > kdelibs = 2.0 is needed by kdelibs-sound-devel-2.0-5mdk
> >
> > I know what it looks like on the surface, but I've grabbed everything I can
> > possibly think of to satisfy any dependency issues and still the same
> > message persists. What now? This is SO frustrating.
>
> Ummm, which KDE2.0 do you have?
>
> OK here--The UGLY method
>
> ===================================================
> #!/bin/bash
> for i in `rpm -qa|grep kde`
> do
> rpm -e $i
> done
> rpm --rebuilddb
> # I am assuming your downloaded rpms are in /home/mark/KDE201
> cd /home/mark/KDE2.01
> rpm -ivh k*rpm
> =====================================================
>
> paste the lines between the ==== s into a text editor, change the directory
> to the path and name where you have saved your downloads, and save the text
> file somewhere creative like /home/mark/foo....
> then open a terminal and su - to root
> cd to the directory where you saved foo
> ./foo
>
> Civileme
Civileme,
Thank you sir! You are the Linux Guru. I take my hat off to you and my
Penguin bows and thanks you. :)
At present I am running the stock KDE that comes with the Mandrake 7.2
distribution and have downloaded the packages for KDE2.0.1.
Mark
