Larry Marshall wrote:
> Can someone tell me what it means to have a conflict between a new
> package and an old one of the same name?
Can only occur if you are trying to install both packages. Chris
Molnar's RPMs unfortunately (and inexcusably) include duplicate RPMs.
I download the RPMs with rsync and then manually separate them out to
another place and into subdirectories by product (cups, kde2.1, alsa,
XFree86, etc), in the process removing older duplicates. I then
open a terminal on, say, the KDE2.1 directory and:
rpm -Uvh --nodeps *.rpm
Unfortunately this does not get all the updates (bug in rpm 3), so I
then check and (for example):
rpm -Uvh --nodeps kdebase-*.rpm
for each of the missed updates.
this is all done in a terminal under KDE, but of course clobbers the
KDE files, so you must immediately logout and back in again (reboot
not necessary).
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Regards,
Ron. [AU]
