Hey all,

I installed SUSE 10.1 remastered, formatting everything except 
my /home partition.

It came with the same old KDE 3.5.1a, so I wanted to upgrade.

I gave smart a whole bunch of channels and selected the 
current KDE. Smart started working (if I recall...) KDE 3.5.5, 
then stopped with a message about "... no package provides libexpat.so.1".

Can somebody explain this please? I don't understand.

I already have libexpat.so.1 installed and several applications, 
including apache2 are running just fine, and YaST says they 
all need libexpat.so.1, so therefore it must be present and 
functional on my system... yes?

Additionally, I had the DVD (SUSE 10.1 remastered) in my 
DVD drive, and _it_ definitely contains libexpat.so.1.

I could probably go and get it again (though the first 75 hits 
on Google are for Deb, RH, SUSE 64-bit (I've got a 32-bit machine) 
and SUSE PPC, which might be problematic), but I don't see why I 
should, since the correct version is already installed and 
satisfactory for all the other apps that require it on my PC.

By the way, I tried a similar upgrade of KDE in September 
(before the remastered SUSE 10.1 was available), and at 
that time, smart choked with the same problem. There's 
been at least one new repackaging of KDE since then, and 
there's been a complete new SUSE installation on my computer, 
so I don't understand what's going on.  Why would that 
failure persist through a full installation? The KDE upgrade 
was one of the first things I attempted after the new SUSE 
install, so I don't understand what I could have broken, 
or what mystery switch I might have flipped to make my 
existing libexpat.so.1 invisible to smart.

Oh... and, um... what do I do about it? I'd like to get at 
least KDE 3.5.4 or 3.5.5 installed.

Thanks,

Kevin

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