On Sunday 28 January 2001 13:44, you wrote:
> Mr. Weaver,
> I am having a problem updating menus. It freezes after the running menu
> methods for each of the graphical desktops.
Errr, it isn't a freeze. It is a tiny bug. You need to hit return and you
get the prompt.
Civileme
> what is it looking for that it
> can't find? (ie, what is supposed to be next). Any suggestions how to
> complete this upgrade from this point?
> Running kernel 2.4.0 xfree4.01, nvidia drivers, and ... I can't think of
> what else you may need to know.
> TIA,
> -s
>
> On Sunday 28 January 2001 02:36 pm, you wrote:
> > Faisal,
> >
> > The others have given good suggestions but there is another way to do it
> > if you're wanting to use theme manager as you may have used in KDE 1.1.x
> > in previous versions of Mandrake. To do this you will have to upgrade
> > your version of KDE to 2.1 which has the Theme Manager in it.
> >
> > ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake-devel/unsupported/i586/kde2.1beta2
> >
> > this URL has all the packages you will need to upgrade to KDE2.1beta2.
> > I've been running this version on both my home machine and my workstation
> > at work and it's very stable.
> >
> > ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake-devel/unsupported/i586
> >
> > There are a few packages that you very well may need along with the other
> > KDE packages and they are egcs-1.1.2-40mdk and
> > egcs-libstdc++-1.1.2-40mdk. you can get these two packages from the
> > second address.
> >
> > *** TO PERFORM THESE UPGRADES THEY MUST BE DONE AS ROOT USER ***
> >
> > to do the upgrade simply place all the packages downloaded into one
> > directory by themselves. Run the install test first to make sure all
> > dependencies are satisfied. Do NOT attempt to force the isntallation. You
> > will only end up breaking your system. To run the install test use this
> > command:
> >
> > rpm -Uvh --test *.rpm
> >
> > The machine should take off and begin chugging through the packages. If
> > there is a dependency problem it will return a message to the terminal
> > and tell you what it is. If there are no problems then it will return to
> > the command prompt. At this point you should drop out to a console issue
> > the install command. You REALLY don't want to be running X when you do
> > the install. Log out of your X-windows session and restart to a console.
> > If you don't have that option then reboot your machine and at the LILO
> > prompt type linux 3 which will boot the machine to a console login. At
> > this point issue the command to install the packages:
> >
> > rpm -Uvh *.rpm
> >
> > When it is finished it will come back to a command prompt. There are two
> > more things left to do before you restart your machine.
> >
> > rpm --rebuilddb
> >
> > and
> >
> > update-menus
> >
> > That's all there is to it. Now just restart your machine and enjoy
> > KDE2.1beta2. O and theme manager too. You will find it under "Look N
> > Feel" in Control Center.
