Arturo Martinez-Nieves wrote:

I went to ftp.kde.org and downloaded the KDE 1.1pre1 set or RPMs for Redhat 5.x since there were none in the SuSE directory!

When I installed the base package, it screwed my K instalation to the point it wouldn't go pass the log on point.

removing that and instaling an older package meant for SuSe helped the problem.

But why?

It's the old libc5 vs. glibc2 problem. Didn't the rpm's refuse to install and give a warning that there were "failed dependencies"? Or did you force them? - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>