On Sunday 30 December 2001 10:04 am, mycal62 wrote:
> Thanks Tom that was helpful. ;-)
>
> looked in rpms and they do install to /opt
>
> Now last questions  (I hope) any order to install? and since rpms
> go where I want can I use package manager to install them? (
> quicker than by hand, less typing )
>
> Mike McNeese

   I've done dozens of kde upgrades, and I always put all the rpms in 
a directory by themselves an 'rpm -Uvh *'. Installing them altogether 
avoids needing to do it in order, and circular dependencies. I also 
upgrade (install) from my running current kde. BUT, that's how I do 
it, eveybody seems to have their own ideas ;)  

   Since kde3 is a seperate install, I used 'rpm -ivh *'  In answer 
to another post in this thread, I gave the link to Texstar's article. 
In re-reading it, I believe I did have to use 'rpm -ivh --nodeps 
--force *' as Texstar did also. Altho it pertains to his rpms on 8.1, 
  you might wanna give the article and comments a read
http://66.69.180.165:8080/article.php?sid=1000

  and take a look at the rpms at
ftp://ftp.eastwind.net/pub/mirrors/texstar/Mandrake-8.1-i686   in the 
kde 3.0 directory.  You'll notice a lot of lib* rpms.  So after I 
installed all the kde3 rpms, I did 'rpm --rebuilddb' and 'ldconfig -v'

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