Hi, Vinay!
Thanks for your repy, yes I am too adicted to the apt-get stuff. :)
As for the second problem(mk_initrd didn't work), it turns out to be
that I did not have "tar" installed, the error message was quite
misleading. :( Anyway, after installed "tar", I was able to mk_initrd
and the system works well.
As for your suggestion on the 3rd problem, I am not sure it will work.
Yes in SuSE8.1, we have yast2 online update, but I doubt it will make
any difference. I have tried to do manually
# rpm -Uvh /path/kdelibs3_3.0.8_i586.rpm
but with the same result. Anyway, it is called unstable, so far I can
live without it. :)
Thanks again !
Vinay Ramnath
Hello,
first of all, I must admit that I still use SuSE 7.2 and never have done anything with apt-get. I thought it was a debian thing and Gentoo had something like it but improved, but that was it. Obviously, it is not it. I can therefore not help you with 1 and 2, but have a suggestion on 3. Please read on.
First wrote:
3. The unstable kde3 can not be installed.
You can do an ftp update with YaST 1 (at least it is possible in 7.2) using the LinuKS service from SuSE. If there is no YaST 1 anymore (I heard something like that) I suppose there might be some replacement for it in your version. If not, you'll have to manually download these files and install them. They're rpms. Anyway, I upgraded KDE 2.1.2 to KDE 3.0.3 this way and it seems to run fine as far as I can see. I use WindowMaker 80.1, I was just curious about the latest KDE. When I want to install or remove software using YaST2, it prompts me that kdelibs need to be installed, but it should already have been with YaST1, so I ignore it and everything goes fine, the few times I use it.
I suggest you try to install KDE3 this way, it might work for you as well.
Good luck, Vinay
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