> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alan
> Shoemaker
> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 3:15 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Very Frustrated 8.0 and kde 2.1
>
>
> root wrote:
> > Help!
> > I was unsuccessful in obtaining a cd which burned correctly
> > to install 8.0 beta 2 or 3.
> >
> > So I tried upgrading to KDE 2.1 via the Mandrake 7.2 RPM
> > packages off of Sourceforge.net. How do I get it to work?
> > I click on one of the Mandrake 7.2 RPM packages, it
> > downloads then stops the install saying unsatisifed
> > dependancies and list thems. I then try and download the
> > RPM that has some of the dependancies, but then that tells
> > me it has unsatisfied dependancies, so i try another and
> > get same result.
> >
> > Helpppppp.
> > This is the song that never ends, it goes on and on my
> > friend....
>
> root....first you need to put all the .rpm files that you
> downloaded from sourceforge into a directory (one with no
> other files in it). Then you type (at a command line as
> root):
>
> rpm -Uvh *
>
> this will check all the dependencies of all the .rpm file in
> that directory and if there are no dependency problems or
> other conflicts all of the .rpm file in the directoey will be
> installed. When the installation of the .rpm files is
> complete then type at the command line:
>
> rpm --rebuilddb
>
> and when that command finishes type:
>
> update-menus -v
>
> when that command seems to have stopped press enter to get
> back the command prompt. Then log off of the system and
> reboot. That's it.
> --
> Alan
>
Kde 2.1 as well as X 4.03 can also be installed by downloading and
burning the Freak ISO and then running LiveUpdate.
Charles (-:
Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
