Re: KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-11 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002, Dvir Volk wrote about RE: KDE 3.0 Instelation: i mean, the way i see it - kde is all about bringing ease of use to Linux. and it does that, but just AFTER you install it. for, let's say, an advanced newbie, upgrading will be possible but annoying, if not difficult

Re: KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-11 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Nadav Har'El wrote: Newbies should not care about upgrading individual packages. They would just get the latest distribution (e.g., Redhat is released every 6 months) and install/upgrade it. Upgrading redhat is an almost trivial operation: you still the CD-ROM in, choose upgrade, and it

Re: KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-11 Thread Shaul Karl
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002, Dvir Volk wrote about RE: KDE 3.0 Instelation: i mean, the way i see it - kde is all about bringing ease of use to Linux. and it does that, but just AFTER you install it. for, let's say, an advanced newbie, upgrading will be possible but annoying

Re: KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-11 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote about Re: KDE 3.0 Instelation: 7.0 begat 7.0 respin and about 80meg of updates. 7.1 needed about the same. At last count my 7.2 system needed almost 150 meg of updates, not counting GCC 3, which I installed manualy as some things will compile

Re: KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-10 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002, Ben-Nes Michael wrote about KDE 3.0 Instelation: I fallowed KDE instruction of how to install the new KDE and obviously it didn't work. all the dependencies are ruined and now I need to guess what lib belong to what package. I think its shame that they put such

Re: KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-10 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
rpm -e `rpm -qa | grep kde` --nodeps rpm -Uvh *rpm --nodeps --force... worked perfect here ;) Hetz On Wednesday 10 April 2002 03:08 pm, Ben-Nes Michael wrote: Damn I fallowed KDE instruction of how to install the new KDE and obviously it didn't work. all the dependencies are ruined and

Re: KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-10 Thread Ben-Nes Michael
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002, Ben-Nes Michael wrote about KDE 3.0 Instelation: I fallowed KDE instruction of how to install the new KDE and obviously it didn't work. all the dependencies are ruined and now I need to guess what lib belong to what package. I think its shame that they put such

Re: KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: rpm -e `rpm -qa | grep kde` --nodeps You left out the '^' rpm -Uvh *rpm --nodeps --force... worked perfect here ;) 'rm -rf /' will work fine next time you try it givenm you are root) What if you have a package called 'hookdesktop' ? It will be

Re: KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-10 Thread Ariel Biener
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Ben-Nes Michael wrote: I just did: cd /usr/local/src mkdir kde3 cd kde3 ftp ftp.sunet.se login as anonymous cd /pub/kde/stable/latest/Red Hat/i386 bin prompt mget *.rpm quit then, rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force *.rpm After that, worked like a charm. Make sure you have

Re: KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Ariel Biener wrote: I just did: cd /usr/local/src mkdir kde3 cd kde3 ftp ftp.sunet.se login as anonymous cd /pub/kde/stable/latest/Red Hat/i386 bin prompt mget *.rpm quit then, rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force *.rpm Just out of curiosity: what happens if you don't

Re: KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-10 Thread Ariel Biener
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Except ... Except nothing. Everything worked. RPM's dependencies should have verified such silly stuff for you, right? Sure, but I used --nodeps --Ariel -- Ariel Biener e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP(6.5.8) public key

Re: KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-10 Thread Ben-Nes Michael
PROTECTED] To: Hetz Ben Hamo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ben-Nes Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED]; linux ILUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 4:23 PM Subject: Re: KDE 3.0 Instelation On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: rpm -e `rpm -qa | grep kde` --nodeps You left out

RE: KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-10 Thread Dvir Volk
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RE: KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Dvir Volk wrote: which kinda makes you wonder: why isn't there just one big package for each distro, with all the needed dependecies (qt, libxml, openssh and such), and seperate packages for the extra stuff such as devel packages, koffice and maybe kdevelop? i mean,

Re: KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-10 Thread Arie Folger
On Wednesday 10 April 2002 15:19, you wrote: which kinda makes you wonder: why isn't there just one big package for each distro, with all the needed dependecies (qt, libxml, openssh and such), and seperate packages for the extra stuff such as devel packages, koffice and maybe kdevelop? i

Re: KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-10 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002, Dvir Volk wrote about RE: KDE 3.0 Instelation: which kinda makes you wonder: why isn't there just one big package for each distro, with all the needed dependecies (qt, libxml, openssh and such), and seperate packages for the extra stuff such as devel packages, koffice

RE: KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-10 Thread Dvir Volk
I liked the zillion packages. You see, sometimes I jsut want one component, not the entire warehouse. I didn't say that there shouldn't be seperate packages, of course that IS GOOD. but you i would also like to see a bundled package with all the necessary files and libs inside. i mean,

Re: KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-10 Thread Arie Folger
On Wednesday 10 April 2002 18:43, Dvir Volk wrote: I didn't say that there shouldn't be seperate packages, of course that IS GOOD. but you i would also like to see a bundled package with all the necessary files and libs inside. agreed. Linux is among others about choice. maybe there should

RE: KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Dvir Volk wrote: I liked the zillion packages. You see, sometimes I jsut want one component, not the entire warehouse. I didn't say that there shouldn't be seperate packages, of course that IS GOOD. but you i would also like to see a bundled package withall the