On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 18:56, Stan Goodman wrote:
After executing the simple commands (omitting the optional repo), the first hints of what was going to happen were a few cases in which the installer claimed that it couldn't find expected files. In the absence of better information, I answered "Ignore" for these.
Your first major error... selecting ignore is the fastest way to a broken install. I'm not surprised that things went haywire as a result. You created a perfect storm... :-(
After that, there were a remarkably LARGE number of cases in which the installer said that the current RPM seemed to be corrupted, and did I want to continue. I answered Yes in each case, and then Retry. In each case, the RPM turned out not to be corrupted after all, and it was loaded. There were tens of such incidents; I have never encountered even one such in the three years I have been updating RPMs.
Again... selecting Yes to continue when there are clearly serious problems with the process... is not the right answer unless you know exactly what is going on. Selecting yes will result in a mess of broken dependencies... half installed applications.. and basically the exact situation you described. Part of KDE4 at 4.4 and another part at 4.5, and some bits missing altogether.
If someone can point the way to inprove this dreadful situation, I will be eternally grateful. And I will never again try to install anything from the Factory.
Factory isn't the issue... it's plowing on through an update when things were clearly wrong right from the start. Next time, please stop the update and ask before it goes wrong :-) There's a few of us here who are trying to keep on top of the rapid evolution of KDE4, and we would have gladly pointed you to the stable KDE4.5 repo which is documented here: http://en.opensuse.org/KDE_repositories#Upstream_release_.28KDE_SC_4.5.29 This was recently created to give users a clean stable KDE 4.5 to work with while the braver ones here moved on to the 4.6Beta. KDE 4.5 Stable repo is very good... KDE 4.5.85 (4.6 Beta2) is OK, but still has some wobbly bits. As Phanisvara pointed out, they are two very different things.... and since phanisvara is assisting you with sorting out your half install... I'll step back. PS.... don't feel bad about pleading for help... :-) Someone here will help get you sorted out. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org