In my experience and humble opinion, Upgrades are always evil! It either doesn't add something, or it's unstable. I've tried this with many OS's, meanwhile Windows is the worst at this, but I did upgrade 7.1 to 7.2 and it burped or something because it wouldn't read my .bashrc. The system would function, but I had to source my .aliases and other files in order to read them. After I just reinstalled, everything worked fine. That machine's been up ever since. [timh@yoda timh]$ uptime 9:36am up 54 days, 9:41, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 What I do suggest, is to install /home on a different partition, or drive all together if at a possible. So when you do reinstall the system, you don't format /home so the user directories are only updated with new info that's needed. So you will be able to keep your aliases and .*rc files for various apps you've already used and configured. >From there you just have to install some of the software you installed before you did the new install. I also install a developmental workstation because it tosses in a lot of extra libs and what not. I don't have many problems with getting errors on the depancies when I do that. But my first machine was a workstation and I would get those depandency errors all the time. So there's my $.02, and I can make change! lol tdh T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real Men use Vi." * g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010409 08:47]: | | OK, lets just try the first upgrade and see if that will work. Sorry, thanks | for playing but no upgrade for you..... | | error: failed dependencies: | kdelibs = 2.0 is needed by kdelibs-sound-2.0-5mdk | | I downloaded kdelibs-2.01-2mdk.i586.rpm and it is sitting in the download | directory w/all the other files? | | Now what? This is the same problem I run into if I use DrakConf, Software | Update: | | Kdelibs & Kdesound | Licq & gtk+licq. | | each says it needs the other. | | I am smiling see :-) , not mad.
