thanks alot, your tips and another guys tips combined worked fine.
-Johan-
At 09:05 2001-01-03 +0100, you wrote:
>On Wednesday 03 January 2001 00:21, you wrote:
> > All I have now is 33 rpm files in a dir and I have no idea what
> > to do next.. when I try to unpack a file it says it can't because
> > it depends on another file.. I'm really confused here :)
> >
> > -Johan-
>
>You may need to go through clearing out the conflicts on the previous version
>files with rpm -e--you need to be root, and logged into your directory of rpm
>files to make the following instructions work. I suggest starting up in
>Graphic mode in IceWM and opening a terminal (DON'T do this in KDE)
>
>first get a report with
>
>rpm -Uvh *.rpm
>
>There is a dependency of one package on a library not included (libkscan)--use
>
>rpm --nodeps filename
>
>to get that one in.
>For the packages showing conflict, build a list of installed packages
>conflicting with
>
>rpm -q (just the beginning of the filename showing the conflict up to the
>first -)
>
>
>rpm -e (the filename reported back)
>
>to delete the old
>
>rmp -ivh filename.rpm to install the new
>
>and then move the file out of the directory
>
>When you are past the conflicts, do all the packages you have left with
>
>rpm -F *.rpm
>
>while you are logged in as root to that directory
>
>Then, still logged in as root, type these three commands and go for coffee
>(don't wait for the first command to finish)
>
>updatedb
>rpm --rebuilddb
>update-menus -v
>
>When you return in 30 minutes or so, type one carriage return, log out and
>log in as a user with KDE. You should have 2.1 running--you may need to log
>in twice to make everything work.
>
>Civileme
