Allen, On Thursday 17 March 2005 23:15, Allen wrote:
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On my favorite mirror, the one at Argonne (ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/), I found this:
/mounts/suse/x86_64/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.2/yast-source/
There are 228 RPM files there (in ".../yast-source/suse/x86_64/"). Actually, they're symlinks, but I assume they point to the right actual files. I imagine that's the whole shebang.
I noticed this with quite a few servers. The files are links and you click on it and it downloads the real thing..... Not sure why they do that but oh well.
Almost certainly so they don't need multiple copies of any given RPM file.
I'm giving KDE 3.4 a test drive in a while with the Kubuntu or whatever distro's live CD. I didn't want to install so I'm just going to try the live one.
I've been running since early yesterday afternoon (it's early morning here, now). There are two problems, one easily solved, the other not quite so easily solved (and, in my opinion, SEP): 1) Missing dependencies on a few packages supplying cryptographic services used by, among others I presume, KMail. You have to manually mark for installation the various cyrus-sasl packages. 2) Arts is still broken, leaving at least some users (including me) with no system sounds. Arts seems to work for other purposes, such as playign Ogg files. Reports (see the SuSE-KDE list) indicate that rebuilding the Arts package from source produces a properly working software.
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Randall Schulz