Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4344 mails)

[BandiPat <penguin0601@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 03 August 2005 04:18 pm, vincent wrote:
[...]
> hey all,
>
> A question about KDE 3.4.2   what is the best to do?
>
> a) uninstall kde 3.4.0 and install the new packages
>
> or
>
> b) do the install as   rpm -U --force --nodeps *.rpm
> I am running suse 9.3 (on a 1.8 Ghz p4)
>
> greetzzz vincent Wychen Netherlands
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Vincent, 
Don't use --force or you can surely mess up a system doing so.  Force 
should be reserved for very special cases.  Drop all the new KDE 
packages into a directory of your choosing and from the shell:  
rpm -Uhv *.rpm
Don't forget to run ldconfig and /sbin/SuSEconfig afterwards.  Then 
restart KDE by ctrl-alt-F1, login as root, init 3, then init 5!

It's quite likely you will get some warnings.  Check to see if that 
program is installed to begin with and if you want/need it on your 
system that you will go to the trouble to fix the dependencies.

No need to uninstall the old as the rpms will take care of those things.  
Also remember that SuSE sometimes splits the files into different rpms 
installed on your system, so don't just download what you think you 
have installed, get them all.  That way you'll keep the programs you 
have and get a few more nice new ones on the way.  :o)

regards,
Lee

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