Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1919 mails)

[brian.jones3@xxxxxxxxxx (Brian Jones)]

RICK CHANDLER wrote:
> 
> Well, I've downloaded the Beta 4 of KDE and tried to install it but, it
> failed terribly.  It gives a list of about 10 errors saying that this or
> that file or directory does not exist.  Even though it does.  I was
> running Beta 3, and deleted the packages through YaST.  I installed
> support first, then libs, then base, then the others.  No luck..  Can
> anyone help???  BTW, what advantages can I expect from Beta 4?  Beta 3
> works fine for me, it seems pretty stable. I've had no problems as of
> yet.

A few questions:

Are you installing precompiled packages ? I'll guess yes.

Did you get the SuSE versions (in the update section on the SuSE FTP
server) or the ones direct from KDE ?

You started off right by completely wiping Beta 3 before installing Beta
4 & the order of installation sounds correct - when did the errors start
and what did they say ?

As for advantages, Beta 3 was fairly stable but the filemanager died
every now and again & as it plays a central role, the whole environment
just packs up. It can still happen in Beta 4 but much more infrequently.
There are also a number of enhancements to the core apps as well as a
number of new ones. What you probably wnat to hear is that there is
enough new stuff to warrant upgrading (although the KDE 1.0 pre-release
sources are now out but I don't imagine this will be much different to
late Beta 4 versions).

BTW, always keep a terminal running somewhere, then if the environment
stops responding, just run kfm& from it and all should be well again.

Good luck,

Brian.
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