Ken,
Your reply cast a lot of light on the situation, but also led me into
making a judgement, for which I need encouragement.
To recap, I want to upgrade from KD1 to KDE2 as a prelude to an
installation of KDEOffice. Attempts to use rmp -Uvh on the KDE2
packages simply returned dependency errors, which you explained were
caused when an application depended on the old version I wanted to
remove as part of the update. For example, "libjscript.so.2 is needed
by kdebase-1.1.2-48" means that that the old kdebase version 1 depends
on libjscript.
So you suggested that I remove the old applications, such as rpm -e
kdebase. However, as you suspected, it has dependencies, such as
kdebase is needed by autorun-2.61-5
kdebase is needed by kdebase-3d-screensavers-1.1.2-48
After reading man rpm I concluded I might push ahead and issue a
single command:
rpm -e app1 app1 app3 ...
However, can I be confidence that that some of these applications are
not vital the functioning of my system? My guess is not because all
seem to be KDE programs, but how can I be sure?
How to I know that when I install new versions of the KDE applications
after removing the old that the dependent applications will know to
use the new versions?
On a secondarily question, I was not entirely clear about your
explanation of qt1 vs qt2, but in any case, qt-2 seems to be
installed, for when I now run:
rpm -qi qt | less
I get:
Name : qt Relocations: /usr/lib/qt-2.2.2
Version : 2.2.2 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release : 2 Build Date: Fri Nov 17 07:50:12 2000
Install date: Sat Mar 3 19:59:12 2001
...
Haines Brown
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