-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 24 May 2002 2:01 pm, Derek Jennings wrote:
> Erm... dunno I dislike ever using --force because nothing good ever > seems to result. > > I guess the simplest way to install 3.0.1 would be urpmi in your > 3.0.1 download directory. Then all the dependencies ought to get > sorted out. They are, but there are undesirable side-effects (in my setup). The worst was that koffice appears broken for the time being. Once I saw this I removed (using rpm -e) all three versions that were present, namely 1.1.1 for KDE 2.2.2, 1.1.1 for KDE 3.0.0 and 1.2 beta 1 for KDE 3.0.0. I then put back 1.1.1 for KDE 3 using the Mandrake RPMs, but still no luck - nothing happens when I click an icon, and there are errors galore when I run it from a konsole. So, after an attempt to compile 1.2 beta 1 from source which also failed, I've moved to openoffice.org 1.0. I also had to rebuild a couple of panel applications (knetmonapplet and the liquid theme), which gave a similar shower of errors, and kxicq2 also failed. That isn't a problem - I've moved to gaim, which is better supported anyway. Finally, Mozilla 1.0.0 RC2 (Mandrake RPMs) no longer worked; I did rpm - -e then downloaded the generic installation package for 1.0.0 RC3 from mozilla.org and installed; it worked straight off. I think I'll stop installing new versions of KDE and wait for Mandrake 8.3 (9.0?) which, presumably, will have KDE 3.0.1 or 3.1, Mozilla 1.0 and so on prepackaged and will not have KDE 2.2.2 available by default (I hope). There are two things happening at the moment which are stoking up trouble: - - both KDE 2.2.2 and KDE 3.0.x (with incremental upgrades thereof) being present on the same machine; - - MandrakeSoft moving from gcc 2.9.x to gcc 3.1.x for package-building. Still, when the new Mandrake appears I'll be able to reformat / and install everything from scratch without touching the application settings or personal data in /home. This is one of the least publicised yet most remarkable features of Linux, and is entirely a result of strong architecture; try doing it with any flavour of Windows ;) Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE879bFCv59vFiSU4YRAomAAJ9AbaEz9ykm2q1KA3Zt97IbBiKEmACeLHDM se11cfiENQTKpgL151CoXoQ= =tafO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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