Hi Yongtao Yang, Yongtao Yang wrote:
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. :)
**commercial talk** I think KDE3 is quiet an improvement over KDE2. I've been using KDE2 (and "improved" KDE1 under CLOS) before I switched to WindowMaker. KDE3 looks really nice and comes with some improved packages, as you'd think. If you use KDE, you'll probably want to switch to 3. So far for the commercials. The rpm installer of YaST1, or it being integrated in YaST2 does some dependency thing you don't do when you install a rpm from command line. I don't know what it is, I got this instruction when I had to install some rpm to get my WP8 for debian (from the CLOS-cd) copy installed under SuSE. I suppose apt-get should do the same for debian. As I said, I've never used apt-get for SuSE, since I never knew I could. Anyway, I ran into trouble with my installation of WP when I installed this rpm from command line, but it worked when I removed it with YaST1 and installed it again with YaST1. Then I could succesfully change this WP8 deb to rpm and install WP. What I mean to point out is that it is worth a try to update KDE using YaST1 (or your version of YaST2). It worked for me on SuSE 7.2, so I suppose it should work for you as well. Run YaST, do the option that installs rpms, do it from ftp from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_8.1/base/ and make sure all files there are marked for installation, then install it. Good luck again, Vinay
Vinay Ramnath
writes: 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.