Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (310 mails)

[Sagdalon <sa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 20 May 2002 17:02, Sandra Dismar wrote:
> Hi there,
> I'm a newbie in Linux (and I'm so sorry, for my stupid questions) Has
> someone experience with KDE3 under SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional? I just
> downloaded the KDE3-Files from
> ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_7.3/ and
> tried to install it (by using run-level 3) with command: rpm -Uvh
> applications/*.rpm base/*.rpm development/*.rpm
> internationalization/*.rpm After that I got a lot of "error: failed
> dependencies" and after that a list with errors like for example:
> "kdebase is needed by kdebase-SuSE-0.0.1-31".
> How can I make it work???
> Thanks a lot to the guys who will help me, if they will do.
> Bye, Sandra

Start off with something simpler. Install the base rpms (not kde2compat) and 
the internationalization rpm that applies to you.
Then the post-installation instructions:
http://mail.bmtsolutions.com/suse_faq/desktops.html#KDE
When you get it working, you can begin to install applications.