Try logging into Gnome to delete your old KDE packages and
to install the new ones. It worked perfectly for me.

Lanman

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On 2/11/2004 at 12:34 AM robin wrote:

>Dan Gordon wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 00:18:35 -0500
>> Greg Meyer wrote:
>> 
>>>The package structure was changed significantly with 3.2
so that a
>>>straight upgrade from 3.1.3 will not be possible.  For
instance, kmail
>>>moved from kdenetwork to kdepim, so you cannot upgrade
>>>kdenetwork-kmail to kdepim-kmail.  Try removing KDE
3.1.3 first and
>>>then installing 3.2.
>>>
>>>Probably 'urpme kdelibs' ought to do it.
>>>-- 
>>>/g
>>>
>>>
>> 
>> 
>> Well I tried this and still got the same error, so then
i removed all of
>> kde and tried again. LOL it was a disaster, there is
some dependency I'm
>> missing so it installed only half of the packages,
kde-base and some of
>> the more important ones just would not install. problem
is aterm will
>> only scroll back so far so i could not tell what it was
looking for. It
>> looked like libsomthing4 was the culprit but don't know
the exact name.
>> I was able to remove what got installed and re-install
3.1.3. I am very
>> pleased that it found all of my settings after the
re-install:-)
>> 
>> Will try again when I have a little more time, thanks
everyone for your
>> help.
>
>I had a similar problem and solved it by doing urpmi bit
by bit. First I 
>installed something basic to get the essential KDE
libraries in place, 
>then progressed through network and multimedia.
>
>Some packages have dependencies from contrib, so that
might be what's 
>giving you a headache.
>
>I also borked k3b in the process, but I think that was my
fault.
>
>Sir Robin
>
>
>-- 
>"Telling disgruntled employees that they are always free
to leave their 
>jobs seems no different in principle from telling
political dissidents 
>that they are free to emigrate."
>- Stephen Newman
>
>Robin Turner
>IDMYO
>Bilkent Univeritesi
>Ankara 06533
>Turkey
>
>www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
>
>
>
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