Dear friends:
Well, looks like I was wrong again. But this time it's a pleasant surprise.
Let's go back to the KDE 2.1.1 upgrade for LM72 site from Texstar at:
http://texstar.dyn.dhs.org
This site has i586 rpms for LM72 that will allow you to upgrade your current
KDE to the final version 2.1.1
I just sucessfully upgraded my KDE 2.1 to KDE 2.1.1 using the instructions
and files at Texstar. See my instructions and explanation below.
All of these i586 rpms (just issued on April 7) have been built from the
Cooker site and made available on LM72 (i.e. using our version 3.0 rpm
instead of the version 4 rpm required for Cooker's i586 rpms.
Another big news item: The new Mozilla 0.8.1 files have also just been made
available as i586 rpms for LM72.
But please remember: these are UNsupported rpms. They are NOT officially
supported by Mandrake.
INSTRUCTIONS:
I'll take the blame for my share of the responsiblity for misleading
everybody earlier (not once but twice) but the author of Texstar should take
his share of the blame, too.
When you arrive at Texstar, AVOID any links on the main screen (FTP or HTTP
links, etc.). That was my mistake earlier. This is NOT the entrance to the
KDE 2.1.1 files.
Instead, look at the top left corner of the screen. You will see a penguin
(that is NOT a link but should be one). Right below it you will find the link
you want: Pclinuxonline. As you can see, it is underlined. Click on it.
Now look for the section pertaining to KDE 2.1.1 for LM72.
First, download the two freetype2 files
freetype2-2.0.2-1mdk.i586.rpm freetype2-devel-2.0.2-1mdk.i586.rpm
and install them first. Then create a KDE-2.1.1 directory and download all
the files INDIVIDUALLY. I don't think there is any other way. Here is what my
directory looks like. I call it KDE-FINAL:
[sher@sher07 sher]$ cd KDE-FINAL
[sher@sher07 KDE-FINAL]$ ls
XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
XFree86-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
XFree86-Xnest-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
XFree86-Xvfb-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
XFree86-cyrillic-fonts-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
XFree86-devel-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
XFree86-doc-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
XFree86-glide-module-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
XFree86-libs-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
XFree86-server-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
XFree86-static-libs-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
XFree86-xfs-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
arts-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdeadmin-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdebase-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdebase-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdebase-devel-static-libraries-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdebase-nsplugins-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdegames-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdegames-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdegraphics-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdegraphics-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdelibs-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdelibs-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdelibs-devel-static-libraries-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdelibs-sound-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdelibs-sound-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdemultimedia-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdemultimedia-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdenetwork-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdenetwork-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdepim-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdepim-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdesdk-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdesdk-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdesupport-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdesupport-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdetoys-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdetoys-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdeutils-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdeutils-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdevelop-1.4.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
kdoc-2.1.1-1mdk.noarch.rpm
koffice-2.0.1-7mdk.i586.rpm
koffice-devel-2.0.1-7mdk.i586.rpm
libarts2-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
libarts2-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
libqt2-2.3.0-2mdk.i586.rpm
libqt2-devel-2.3.0-2mdk.i586.rpm
qt2-Xt-2.3.0-2mdk.i586.rpm
qt2-designer-2.3.0-2mdk.i586.rpm
qt2-static-libraries-2.3.0-2mdk.i586.rpm
[sher@sher07 KDE-FINAL]$
Now, after installing the 2freetype2 files, install the KDE files (all 53 of
them, 120.1 meg) as follows:
#rpm -Uvh --nodeps --replacefiles *.rpm
When I first did an rpm -Uvh *.rpm I got an error message telling me that
there was one failed dependency, namely, that kdesu was not installed. That's
not true because kdesu is included in kde-base (and is not available
separately in LM72). So, there are NO failed dependencies. But some files in
KDE2.1.1 must replace certain files in earlier versions of KDE 2 (you must
first install KDE 2.0 or KDE 2.01 in order to upgrade to KDE 2.1.1.
Installation was a success. All 53 files returned 50 hashes each. There was
one error message about a certain font but it said: "skipping." so I am sure
everything installed OK.
After installation, exit KDE, then in the console do a:
#rpm --rebuilddb (rebuilding the database)
and
#update-menus -v
Then reboot and you've got KDE 2.1.1. You can check the Control Center to see
the new version number.
My thanks to everyone who helped. Hope I have been of help to others,
especially to other newbies like myself.
Benjamin
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Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net
Benjamin and Anna Sher
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