On Friday 16 December 2011 07:30:24 am Erik Sorenson wrote:
On Friday 16 December 2011 3:45:42 am kanenas@hawaii.rr.com wrote:
next time it will be without libstrigi and without akonadi, and we will see if the system can even come up at all... if it does, i will definitely try your suggestions. they seem to be more complete than my proceedures
Rather than installing KDE4 and then KDE3.5, you might want to take a cleaner approach. This is for 11.4, but the procedure will be the same to 12.1 when I find time to write it up too: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/how-faq-forums/u nreviewed-how-faq/460860-how-kde-3-5-11-4-updated.html
The 3.5 repo is available this time to be selected in Yast-Repositories-Add-Community, so all that need be added is: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE3:/HAL-enabled/openSUSE_1 2.1/
and enable HALdaemon in Yast-System-SystemServices.
This is the procedure I use all the time, when upgrading via a clean install.
Thanks for the suggestion. i eventually tried it, but not before i stumbled on the kmail solution. kdepim3 in my ancient 11.1 is version 3.5.10-106!!! the kdepim3 that the kde3 PATTERN installs for 12.1 in yast is version 3.5.10-154, and THAT needs some work! fortunately, the work seems to be allready done in a version available from the OSS 12.1 repo (!!!!!), and that's version 3.5.10-11.1.2!!!!!! sooo, if one installs kde3 from the official repo, one might want to check on the proposed version of kdepim3 before installing, check on the versions tab in yast and change it, or, better yet, perhaps the gurus can set that to happen automatically. btw, running without akonadi and without libstrigi installed feels just fine:))) ALSO, there seems to be no hal at all installed, so there is no hald daemon option in system services, yet i have no problem with either the dvd drive or my usb printer:) and, btw, this is my first email from my 12.1 - kde3 system:) happy holidays, d -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+owner@opensuse.org