Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (180 mails)

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On Thursday 22 January 2009 09:06:24 pm Sven Burmeister wrote:
> Am Freitag, 23. Januar 2009 13:19:48 schrieb Bob S:
> > I installed 11.1 shortly after it was released and elected to install
> > KDE4.1 as a test bed and to see how I liked it. It was OK but lt lacked
> > many features. So I waited until 4.2 was released, The other night I did
> > the "one click" install and came up with a huge amount of dependencies. I
> > kind of expected that from following the mailing list.
>
> KDE 4.2 was not yet released. http://www.kde.org/
>
> > On many of the dependencies the only option was to uninstall the package.
> > Kmail was one of them. I OK'd that (and others) thinking they would be
> > reinstalled. Wrong !!
>
> If you chose to remove them, why would they be re-installed? The software
> does whatever you tell it to.
>
> > The actual message on the dependency was "Nothing provides libical0>=0.43
> > Needed by kdepimlibs4-4.1.96-1.5x86_64" and was the same for many other
> > apps. Now, kdepimlibs4-4.1 ???? Why ? And the other apps with
> > dependencies were designated 4.1 also. No upgrades on those packages? And
> > what the heck is, or where do I find libical0 ?
>
> If you have a look at the repos, there are updated versions of all these,
> so either you or your mirror are doing something wrong. There are packages
> to be removed, because they do not exist in KDE 4.2 anymore, but certainly
> not kmail.
>
> > Not only that, when the upgrade was done doing it's thing, the next time
> > I booted up 11.1 the whole desktop had changed, theme, everything. AND
> > the taskbar kicker or whatever it is called now was missing. Gone! I
> > couldn't figure out how to bring it back or find a way to bring up the
> > menu or log out.
>
> To add a panel, right-click the desktop to unlock and add a panel. If you
> do not care about your desktop settings: open a konsole, do kquitapp
> plasma, wait until plasma quit, rm ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma*, start
> plasma again.
>
> > So, bottom line, if someone could explain the libical thing so I can get
> > Kmail back it would be good. Then maybe I can find out how KDE4.2 is.
>
> Check the repository you use, whther it contains the package. Do not use
> smart or anything other than zypper+YaST for upgrading.
>
> Sven

soo, a poor soul clicks on the one click install and all that happens...

on a release candidate....

and then he gets scolded .....

I guess i can wait a while before i experiment with whatever magical thing 
plamoids(!!!!!) are...

is all this 4.xx shtuff a microsoft conspiracy / false flag operation or 
something like it? sometimes one wonders, but please, don't tell me if you 
have to kill me afterwards...
d.
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