here is the wget commnd to download all of the kde 3.4 rpms frpm suse wget -m -nH --cut-dirs=7 'ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.2' create a directory, cd to it, run the wget command, go to bed, complete in morning. Andrew On Thursday 26 May 2005 15:00, Matt T. wrote:

Hi Alaios,

On Thursday 26 May 2005 12:53, Alaios wrote:

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Hi! I have just destoyed my pc. I have suse 9.2 and i used apt-get to install packages... the problem is that the apt-get corrupted some files (so dont use it in suse) and my kde cannot start now.. Plz tell me what to do in order to rescue the system

kdeinit gives me the following error kdeinit: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3: undefined symbol: _ZN12QCommonStyle7metaObjE

Any good suggestion? I think that i should find the rpm packages and reinstall them....I dont know where i can find packages and how to install them...

Hmmm, so you do not know how to install packages. And you do not know where to find them.

But you *do* know that it was "apt-get" which corrupted some files. And you even recommend *not* to use it in SuSE 9.2.

Well, I found that it is one of the good points of apt that it *avoids* that your installation gets corrupted. It served me and many many others well in SuSE 9.2, and now also 9.3.

But what happened in your installation, and how to fix it?

Well, that's not easy to say, because all you tell us that you use 9.2 and apt. You do not say what you did install exactly with "apt-get", when the problem appeared. Also you do not say what kde version you are using.

My guess is that you did misconfigure apt, and had it trying to install rpm's meant for a different version of kde / qt then the one one you are using. This could be installing SuSE 9.3 or 9.1 rpm's on SuSE 9.2, or x86_64 rpm's on an 32 bit system, or similar. Or by using the "nodeps" or "force" options when installing.

In order to verify that, you would need to post your sources file for apt here. You did configure that file, after installing apt, did you? So you know where it is, right?

With a correct apt sources file it is difficult to get apt to mess up your system (assuming that the rpm's - which you try to install using apt - are declaring their dependencies correctly).

Another approach would be to install the latest kde, including qt, completely. But without kde it will be not so easy to download. But it is possible, we could use tools like wget to download the files, and then you can install them manually with the rpm command.

Also yast could do it, but you would need to add the kde directories in the supplementory directories on SuSE's ftp server as yast source.

You can run wget, rpm and yast all from the command line, meaning it works without kde running.

apt would probably be even easier, but you might want to check your sources file first. As said, it is probably not configured correctly, if it was really that you corrupted your qt files when you used apt.

In summary,

1) post your apt sources file here.

2a) If it is incorrect, and can get corrected, apt can fix your installation.

2b) Otherwise someone here can explain how to get either yast or wget and rpm to install the latest kde / qt version, or check the archives of teh suse lists, it has been explained before.

HTH, Matt

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Thx.. Have a nice day

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On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 07:23, Andrew Colvin wrote:

here is the wget commnd to download all of the kde 3.4 rpms frpm suse

wget -m -nH --cut-dirs=7 'ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.2'

create a directory, cd to it, run the wget command, go to bed, complete in morning.

Or do what I do and wait for a friend in the local linux group to make a cd of them for you. I am not convinced to get 9.3 yet so let me know how it goes. -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/

On Thursday 26 May 2005 11:13 pm, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

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here is the wget commnd to download all of the kde 3.4 rpms frpm suse

wget -m -nH --cut-dirs=7 'ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementa ry/KDE/update_for_9.2'

create a directory, cd to it, run the wget command, go to bed, complete in morning.

Or do what I do and wait for a friend in the local linux group to make a cd of them for you. I am not convinced to get 9.3 yet so let me know how it goes.

Hello. I'm not the guy that started this thread (in fact, this is the first time I've posted to this list), but I followed that earlier advice in order to upgrade KDE on my laptop, which is running 9.2. I downloaded everything except the source and yast-source folders. I threw all the RPMs together in one folder, then burned that onto a CD. I then shut down KDE completely, removed ~/.kde, cd'ed to the CD, and did a rpm -Fv *rpm, and rebooted. Perhaps I went about it the hard way, but I'm still pretty much a newbie. I'm now using KDE 3.4, and as far as I can tell, I've had only one issue, with Kontact. It was unable to send my login and password to the SMTP server. I googled it, and learned that the cyrus-sasl packages are needed to fix this. I installed them from the SuSE 9.2 DVD, and the problem was solved. As far as I can tell, I've had no issues. I discovered also that KMail moved its mail storage directory on me, so I manually moved my mail to the new location -- a five minute fix. KDE 3.4 is very impressive, imho. Hope this helps. Travis. -- "The only real way to look younger is not to be born so soon." -- Charles Schulz, "Things I've Had to Learn Over and Over and Over"