I think that to solve your dependencies problems, you should simply install
mandrake_desk and Mesa from your mandrake cdrom.
If you encounter this kind of problem again, try to mount your Mandrake cdrom
and run something like :
for i in /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPM/*.rpm ; do
rpm -qpl $i |grep Mandrake_desk && echo $i
done
And you'll get a list of the packages that install files that contain
'Mandrake_desk' in their name.
You can optimise the command to check only packages that are not already
installed in your system, but that's a detail...
more info : man rpm and man bash
John Bishop wrote :
> I believe that I missed the boat somewhere. I just installed
> Linux/Mandrake 6.5.
>
> I installed Linux per the install guides. I'm able to log in
> successfully, but instead of getting KDE as the default user interface I
> get the X user interface. Not that big of a deal, but I thought KDE
> would be installed automatically. I did a "find" on kde and came up
> with nothing.
>
> So... I looked at CD3 of and saw that there was a "getting started with
> KDE". I found the install section, copied over the appropriate files
> off of CD1 and ran the rpm -Uvh on the files in the correct order.
> However, on
>
> $ rpm -Uvh kdebase_1.1.2-9mbk.i586.rpm
>
> I got
>
> error : failed dependencies
> mandrake_desk >= 0.8.2 is needed by kdebase_1.1.2-9mbk.i586.rpm
> libMesaGL.so.3 is needed by kdebase_1.1.2-9mbk.i586.rpm
> libMesaGLU.so.3 is needed by kdebase_1.1.2-9mbk.i586.rpm
>
> So... this was the only one that failed, but because it is "base" I'm
> not getting what I need. I'm guessing I need to upgrade a rpm
> somewhere.
>
> I'm assuming that after I get this up and going that startx command -
> correct?
>
> Any help is appreciated - I'm not so sure I what to hang out in the X
> mode.
>
> TIA,
>
> JB
