On 05/02/10 16:45, David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates,
Just a note for those upgrading to kde 4.3.5 with yast, especially those running 11.0 or 11.0. If you use yast -> software management -> Filter -> Repositories and select the kde4.3.5 (STABLE) repo and upgrade by choosing 'All in list -> Update if a Newer Version Available', you will be left with a broken desktop. This occurs if the normal opensuse 'update' repository is enabled due to the priority of the update repository being vastly greater (lower numerically) that any of the other repositories. What happens with 11.0 is the suse update repo has 4.0.4 kde4 packages and even though your newly added kde 4.3.5 repository has for example kdelibs-4.3.5, kdelibs and other critical packages are never updated and -- you run into problems.
To work around the issue, a solid approach is to disable your update repository, then upgrade kde, then re-enable the update repo. I'm sure there is a slick zypper up or dup -r yournewkde435repo command that will do it as well, but for controlling dependencies, I generally like to go package by package in the installation summary with the 'versions' tab selected so I can insure a consistent upgrade.
You will know you have been caught by this peculiarity if after upgrade you click on kwrite and instead of an editor, you get an error message saying no editor component can be found :p
Hopefully this will help others during the upgrade process.
This is not applicable on 11.2, which treats vendor changes much more carefully (and update repo no longer has superpriority); while I sympathise with your troubles David please do make it clear (in the subject line perhaps? i know you did in the text) that you are running 11.0 so as not to scare newbies. Assume "11.0 or 11.0" was a typo, what did you mean there? Regards, Tejas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org