[opensuse-kde] Re[4]: Problems with KDE 4.7 after ordinal update

On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:10, Werner Flamme wrote:

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Yamaban [21.09.2011 16:42]:

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On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:27, Werner Flamme wrote:

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Pavel Baranchikov [21.09.2011 16:17]:

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May I chime in here? I have "A KDE text-editor component could not be found. Please check your KDE installation." also, but "rpm -qa | grep 4.7.0" returns nothing.

And it is today, it is several days now that the 4.7.x damage has been resolved...

Try zypper dup -l This helped me

Pavel,

I need a working system, so there is no way I will have a zypper dup running here - unless it is 2012 and I upgrade to 12.1 ;-)

A "rpm -qa *kate* | sort" returns

kate-4.7.1-2.3.x86_64 katesort-1.0-15.3.x86_64 kde3-katesort-1.0-1.2.x86_64 kdeaddons3-kate-3.5.10-9.3.x86_64 libkate1-0.3.8-8.1.x86_64

there shouldn't be anything missing, because then the kate package would show missing dependencies, which it does not.

KDE 3's kate is working fine, btw.

Regards, Werner

"The Trick" is to do a "zypper -v dup -D" (dry-run), or, after the solver is done, ask for 'd'etails, then abort, take note of the packages it selected. (best done in a second terminal)

And after this YOU select which packages you install via "zypper in -r <repo> <package-name>-<version>.<arch>"

Use the output of "zypper -v dup -D" as a help to find out whats' wrong, no more, if you don't trust it.

Hope this gives you a hint on how to solf your troubles.

- Yamaban

I filtered the output of that command (zypper -v dup -D | grep -B2 KDE). The list was way too long without that. "zypper lr" shows 65 repos.

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Ouch! Ok, assuming the kate you want is the one from KDE 4.7, than you can limit zypper dup even more. (see "zypper help dup") "zypper -v dup -D --from " that should limit the list. On the otherhand, when I look at your list, this looks like there is also some trouble with the priority of your repos. To make sure, have a look at the output of "zypper lr -P" and keep in mind the lower the number, the higher the priority. The desired effect (working kate from KDE4.7) is easier to reach when the prio-number of the KDE4.7 repo is lower than the KDE3 one. E.G. repo-kde3 -> 99; repo-kde47 -> 98. The "zypper -v dup -D --from <repo-kde47>" output should be much more sane then. On my old OSS 11.2 with KDE4.6.3 kate is just one package. Maybe a uninstall and reinstall anew of kate from the repo-kde47 gives a faster fix to your trouble. But, make sure of the repo priority beforehand. Again, have a look at zypper help dup, and make note of the difference between --from and --repo, maybe --repo makes more sense here. A dry-run test with --recommends could be helpfull. Additional, "libkate*" is "A karaoke and text codec for embedding in Ogg" from packman repo not the editor. Cheers, - Yamaban. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org