Hi everybody,

I'm trying to upgrade to KDE 2.2 just to get some experience in installing
new stuff on my box.  I managed to find most of the dependencies I need, but
the libSDL1.2 is giving me trouble.  It needs XFree 4.1.0 and I have XFree
4.0.3 (from my distribution ISOs).  How do I go about upgrading a package?

If I do a "rpm -qa | grep XFree", I have several packages at version
4.0.3-7mdk.  I don't understand how to use the -U option to "upgrade" a
package.  Do you give the command the name of the new package (let's say in
this case XFree-4.1.0-10mdk.rpm) and it will find and replace the old one
(XFree-4.0.3-7mdk.rpm)?

I also have some questions about packages and their names.  I am using
rpmfind.net to get them.  Am I right in saying that the packages labeled
Mandrake Cooker are beta versions that might be buggy and those labeled
Mandrake only are the current stable versions?  And how does the versioning
works in these filenames, is there a standard or each author uses any
numbering scheme they want?

Finally, any help with upgrading to KDE 2.2 will be appreciated. =)


Eric, newbie in the installation realm.

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