Thanks for the detailed advice. I had exactly the same experience on first try, but was not smart enough to work my way through. I'll give it a try. BTW, I found Synaptic (0.26) to be a trap for the unwary in this situation. I was hesitant to post my experiences in detail, for fear of being OT. since SuSE states that it does not support apt. ============== On Mon, 28 Apr 2003 11:41:11 +0200, you wrote:
I made exactly that transition last week. After reading several threads here on the same subject I decided to give apt4rpm a try. (Cf. http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/). It didn't work as advertised... <snip> I resolved this by running "apt-get -s upgrade" to get a list of the packages apt would like to install, remove and upgrade if it could, then manually fetching them with wget (from my fast local mirror), and doing the work myself with rpm. Of course I then got the same errors from rpm which had caused apt to fail, but I could then resolve the conflicts by either removing, reinstalling or upgrading packages manually. I stumbled on some dependencies but eventually managed to install everything. <snip> After the upgrade, I have noticed absolutely no problems at all in my desktop or in any any KDE application I use.
I'm running SuSE 8.1 PRO, and looking for some hand-holding in going from KDE 3.04 to 3.11.
Regards, Matt Prastein