Dear friends: Well, looks like I was wrong again. But this time it's a pleasant surprise. Let's go back to the KDE 2.1.1 upgrade for LM72 site from Texstar at: http://texstar.dyn.dhs.org This site has i586 rpms for LM72 that will allow you to upgrade your current KDE to the final version 2.1.1 I just sucessfully upgraded my KDE 2.1 to KDE 2.1.1 using the instructions and files at Texstar. See my instructions and explanation below. All of these i586 rpms (just issued on April 7) have been built from the Cooker site and made available on LM72 (i.e. using our version 3.0 rpm instead of the version 4 rpm required for Cooker's i586 rpms. Another big news item: The new Mozilla 0.8.1 files have also just been made available as i586 rpms for LM72. But please remember: these are UNsupported rpms. They are NOT officially supported by Mandrake. INSTRUCTIONS: I'll take the blame for my share of the responsiblity for misleading everybody earlier (not once but twice) but the author of Texstar should take his share of the blame, too. When you arrive at Texstar, AVOID any links on the main screen (FTP or HTTP links, etc.). That was my mistake earlier. This is NOT the entrance to the KDE 2.1.1 files. Instead, look at the top left corner of the screen. You will see a penguin (that is NOT a link but should be one). Right below it you will find the link you want: Pclinuxonline. As you can see, it is underlined. Click on it. Now look for the section pertaining to KDE 2.1.1 for LM72. First, download the two freetype2 files freetype2-2.0.2-1mdk.i586.rpm freetype2-devel-2.0.2-1mdk.i586.rpm and install them first. Then create a KDE-2.1.1 directory and download all the files INDIVIDUALLY. I don't think there is any other way. Here is what my directory looks like. I call it KDE-FINAL: [sher@sher07 sher]$ cd KDE-FINAL [sher@sher07 KDE-FINAL]$ ls XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-Xnest-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-Xvfb-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-cyrillic-fonts-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-devel-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-doc-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-glide-module-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-libs-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-server-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-static-libs-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm XFree86-xfs-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm arts-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdeadmin-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdebase-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdebase-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdebase-devel-static-libraries-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdebase-nsplugins-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdegames-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdegames-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdegraphics-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdegraphics-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdelibs-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdelibs-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdelibs-devel-static-libraries-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdelibs-sound-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdelibs-sound-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdemultimedia-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdemultimedia-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdenetwork-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdenetwork-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdepim-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdepim-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdesdk-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdesdk-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdesupport-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdesupport-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdetoys-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdetoys-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdeutils-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdeutils-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdevelop-1.4.1-1mdk.i586.rpm kdoc-2.1.1-1mdk.noarch.rpm koffice-2.0.1-7mdk.i586.rpm koffice-devel-2.0.1-7mdk.i586.rpm libarts2-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm libarts2-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm libqt2-2.3.0-2mdk.i586.rpm libqt2-devel-2.3.0-2mdk.i586.rpm qt2-Xt-2.3.0-2mdk.i586.rpm qt2-designer-2.3.0-2mdk.i586.rpm qt2-static-libraries-2.3.0-2mdk.i586.rpm [sher@sher07 KDE-FINAL]$ Now, after installing the 2freetype2 files, install the KDE files (all 53 of them, 120.1 meg) as follows: #rpm -Uvh --nodeps --replacefiles *.rpm When I first did an rpm -Uvh *.rpm I got an error message telling me that there was one failed dependency, namely, that kdesu was not installed. That's not true because kdesu is included in kde-base (and is not available separately in LM72). So, there are NO failed dependencies. But some files in KDE2.1.1 must replace certain files in earlier versions of KDE 2 (you must first install KDE 2.0 or KDE 2.01 in order to upgrade to KDE 2.1.1. Installation was a success. All 53 files returned 50 hashes each. There was one error message about a certain font but it said: "skipping." so I am sure everything installed OK. After installation, exit KDE, then in the console do a: #rpm --rebuilddb (rebuilding the database) and #update-menus -v Then reboot and you've got KDE 2.1.1. You can check the Control Center to see the new version number. My thanks to everyone who helped. Hope I have been of help to others, especially to other newbies like myself. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
