On Monday 09 February 2004 07:52 pm, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
On Monday 09 February 2004 6:01 pm, BandiPat wrote:
You might want to consider the use of Red Carpet for alternative updating and installing. It actually seems to be a bit more reliable and safe for doing such things, if you are not planning to handle things manually. Not sure where you need to pick it up, but there has been some discussion and instructions on setting it up by Anders Johansson on the SuSE-e list. Post a message on the suse-e list to Anders and he'll be happy to point you in the right direction.
For the sake of completeness I'll cite the four methods of obtaining the KDE 3.2 packages that I've seen discussed:
1. Configure Yast to use the SuSE 3.2 rpms as an alternative source (any of several servers will do) and do a Yast update.
2. Use the command "rpm -Fvh <URL>" where <URL> points to the collection of rpms.
3. Use apt4suse.
4. Use Red Carpet.
For each of these, some who have tried have succeeded and others have failed. :=)
I should also mention that there are a number of servers that provide the SuSE packages; the ones most often cited are ftp.suse.com, ftp.leo.org, and ftp.dwdg.de. The paths for these all end the same but they don't necessarily begin the same. Aside from traffic problems, they all work.
And finally, the rpms are also available from kde.org, though no one as yet has provided a comparison between those and the ones on the SuSE mirrors.
My personal experiences with 3.2 have been disastrous, but others report much better results.
Paul Abrahams
Paul, I think the only thing you left out and may have been part of your problem as well, is to choose one and stick with it! Don't mix & match these things as you will completely or partially muck up your system to the point of things not working. :o) Lee -- --- KMail v1.6 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...