On Sunday 01 February 2004 6:17 pm, Sid Boyce wrote:
Patriiiiiiiiiick wrote:
I saw that KDE 3.2 RC1 is out.... is there a simple way to install ... In fact when I see the listing of the ftp site, I don't really know what I already have installed on my system.
... I've always done the following successfully.......... cd /
rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force *.i586.rpm
I suspect Patrick is actually a few steps earlier than this and wants to know exactly which packages to download in the first place [no need to burn bandwidth if you're not going to install the package, right?] I see this method promoted a lot [rpm -U...] and rarely does anyone take the time to point out that you need to download ALL of the packages, regardless of whether or not they are currently installed, and let the rpm manager sort out which ones need processing. well, "all" isn't exactly correct either -- if you really do know which sub-components of KDE are installed, you can get away with downloading just those, but if you're at that level of understanding of KDE itself, you're probably one of the core developers :) -- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net