Oliver Schwabedissen wrote:
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Am Donnerstag, 21. August 2003 06:01 schrieb Pavan K Balellugari:
I am using the download version of Suse 8.2. Would this be the reason why the YOU never told me about the KDE 3.1.3??
No, this is normal. I never saw a KDE update on YOU except security updates.
If i want to upgrade to 3.1.3 can i just download the files from the Suse KDE site & install them??. Would it install over the existing 3.1.1 ??
This is in short how to upgrade KDE:
- - backup your system!
- - download all the packages that are installed on your system from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_8.2/* and save all files in one directory.
- - to be save I decided to download everything from base, applications and development plus the language dependend file from internationalization (e.g. for German this is kde3-i18n-de-3.1.3-0.noarch.rpm)
- - go to runlevel 3, login as root, cd to the directory where you saved all downloaded files and run "rpm -Fvh *.rpm" (without the quotes). This way all installed packages will be refreshed with the new versions. If you get any error messages fix the problems first, then try again ;-)
- - as root run /sbin/SuSEconfig
- - go back to runlevel 5. Your system should now be running KDE 3.1.3
Ciao, Oliver
OK, I've done everything you have said but have struck a brickwall and don't know how to overcome - especially since it all looks so illogical. During the first installation of the rpms, I got an error message stating that "libwmf-0.2.8-24.i586.rpm did not appear to be a RPM package". All the other rpms installed perfectly. After this I went to have a look at libwmf using Midnight Commander and Yes, mc came back with the message that it could not read the file. So I downloaded another copy of it from the SuSE site and this time I was able to look insided it using mc. Fine, I thought to myself, now I can install it. HA! :-( When I try to install libwmf-0.2.8-24.i586.rpm I now get an error message which states- wv requires libwmf-0.2.so.6 wv requires libwmflite-0.2.so.6 and something else also requires the latter file (...lite...). Now, what has got me absolutely and thoroughly confused is that both of the above files (the so.6) are acutally installed and are sitting in /usr/lib! What is going on, and what needs to be done to overcome this impasse? I don't if this connected to the above but before I updated to KDE 3.1.3 - or, rather, almost updated to it - I had a fully functional TV card (ie, Kwintv was working perfectly) and also in the poker game all cards has backs and fronts which were visible- now the cards are total blanks with nothing on them :-). Anyone have a solution to this problem of mine? Cheers. -- Understanding only begins with the act of perception.