Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3863 mails)

[Tom Emerson <osnut@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 01 February 2004 6:17 pm, Sid Boyce wrote:
> Patriiiiiiiiiick wrote:
> > I saw that KDE 3.2 RC1 is out.... is there a simple way to install ...
> > In fact when I see the listing of the ftp site, I don't really know what
> > I already have installed on my system.

> ... I've always done the following successfully..........
> cd /<path_to_kde_downloads>
> rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force *.i586.rpm

I suspect Patrick is actually a few steps earlier than this and wants to know 
exactly which packages to download in the first place [no need to burn 
bandwidth if you're not going to install the package, right?]  I see this 
method promoted a lot [rpm -U...] and rarely does anyone take the time to 
point out that you need to download ALL of the packages, regardless of 
whether or not they are currently installed, and let the rpm manager sort out 
which ones need processing.

well, "all" isn't exactly correct either -- if you really do know which 
sub-components of KDE are installed, you can get away with downloading just 
those, but if you're at that level of understanding of KDE itself, you're 
probably one of the core developers :)

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