On Sunday 25 March 2001 12:18, you wrote:
> With Mandrake 7.1, I have KDE 1.1.2. I'd like to upgrade to KDE 2.1. I
> found the files here:
>
> http://ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/kde/stable/latest/distribution/rpm/M
>andrake/7.2/i586/
>
> (and I hope that's the right place).
>
> Anyway, what files do I need from there? All of them or some of them?
>
> And, once retrieved, what do I need to do to run them? I have kind of
> figured out how to run Kpackage.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Barbara
Well you need qt, and arts and all the packages labeled kde and koffice--you
do not need the packages labeled -devel- or -static- unless you plan to write
some programs using KDE 2.1
best way to put them in? Ufff....
Well I would download them all into a /home/username/tmp directory with
nothing else there, then open a Konsole (yeh this is way beyond what kpackage
can do) and
$ su -
password:(your root password)
# cd /home/username/tmp
# rpm -ivh *rpm
and wait for a list of conflicts
remove each conflicting package with
# rpm -e packagename
then try again
You may find a dependency on libkdefakes or something like that
that is where you use
# rpm --nodeps *rpm
Once everything is in
# rpm --rebuilddb
# update-menus
(you just added 80 Mb or so so it is a good idea)
then logout and login (may need to do this twice)
Now your best friend if you like themes will be the legacy theme importer on
the kde control center.
Civileme
