Haines,
I guess this has been pretty much covered now, but my two-pennyworth, for
what it's worth:
Kde2 is a reasonably new environment, it's never a good idea to mix old
and new rpms for different major releases of the same environment. In this
context, old means something like "packaged before October 2000". I
imagine your kdelibs is for kde-1. (try "rpm -qip kdelibs*.i386.rpm")
By the same token, kde 2.0 packages should give you reasonably recent
versions of what they contain. Go to the downloads and get the set !
Also, be wary of mixing Mandrake and Red Hat. Often they work (my RH 7.0
test box is running a mdk version of util-linux, because I needed 2.10o
for kernel 2.4 and the RH links were all dead), but there is scope for
difference, such as which package contains libDCOP. More generally,
state-of-the-art mdk packages (for 7.2) use a lot of other mandrake
packages, such as menu-this and drake-that.
Installing koffice should be easy: first get yourself a working kde2, then
install the koffice rpm on top of it. (Yeah. Took me three attempts to get
a half-useable kde2-beta on mandrake 7.0, I know it isn't always easy.) My
only recommendation is to find a good kde mirror for your distro.
Best wishes, Ken.
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ken,
>
> I'm still fumbling around ;-(.
>
> > >From memory, the installation order is qt-2.2 (yes, you might need to
> > upgrade that as well.), kdelibs, kdesupport, (kdelibs-sound), kdebase, and
> > then any of the other packages, including koffice.
>
> I've got qt-2.2.1-1 installed, but that's about all I know at this point.
>
> I've got in hand an rpm for kdelibs (the only one I found was really
> old and meant for RedHat 5x, and requires qtegcs). I've also in hand
> an rpm for kdesupport-2.0-1, but can't be sure installing it won't
> overwrite newer packages or libraries. I'm at a loss on the most
> elementary questions:
>
> a) How does one find whether one has a libary except by fishing in
> suspect directories? I can find files by name, but I don't know the
> full version name of the libraries to search for until after I've
> found them.
>
> b) What does it mean if rpm refuses to install as uninstalled or as
> newer packages, but only as all packages? If I have very old packages
> I'm trying to install, and do it as all packages, I'll simply
> overwrite any newer ones that may be present.
>
> c) There must be guidelines somewhere, for surely a lot of people have
> installed koffice on Red Hat 7.0. The koffice site is concerned with
> unstable cvs versions. Everywhere else I look, I end up with
> references to something called Mandrake and to very old rpms. I have
> trouble knowing what I've got and what I need. For example, everywhere
> I go, it presumes I already know whether one needs to have koffice
> installed to install and run kword, or whether kword is a stand-alone
> application.
>
> Haines Brown
>
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