Lorne Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>Another thing - if Mandrake is 100% compatible with RedHat
>and KDE as they claim, why is upgrading to KDE 1.1.1 so
>hard? KDE's install script doesn't work. That's not
>compatibility!
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>Lorne.
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I believe there was a post from someone at Mandrake here a couple of days
ago that explained this to us. He said that the Redhat RPMs install to a
different directory than where Mandrake put them in their release.
Previously Redhat did not install KDE at all, but Mandrake did so as a
default. On an upgrade you could install KDE where the RPM puts it and
then create a symlink from there to the old location. You could also obtain
the source from KDE direct and place them in the current file location then
do your install (likely you will have to compile). The Mandrake ver. 6.0
is supposed to take all this into account and put stuff where Redhat does to
remain compatible. If you go to Mandrake 6.0 most likely you will have to
do a full reinstall if your not sure what your doing. Me, I'm sticking
with the default install of 5.3 for a while till I get the hang of things or
run into a major problem. This is all a learning experience for me as I
had little exposure to Unix in college. Only a few programming classes.
Rip
"A mind is a terrible thing."
