I have tried to upgrade my KDE 2.1.2 system to KDE 2.2 using all the base packages supplied on the SuSE KDE Update page. The problem is that the base packages don't seem to be self-contained. ie they require capabilities which are not present in the other (2.2) packages or installed on the existing system. An example is the kdelibs-artsd package which is one of the requirements of the 2.2 kdebase (libarts, etc). This package requires libmcop_mt.so.0. However none of the other 2.2 packages provide this and it is not on my system so where am I supposed to find it? The same is true of cups which requires libcups.so.2 There are lots more examples like this: I had to back out my last (forced upgrade attempt) by removing and reinstalling KDE 2.1.2 back onto the system. So what am I missing guys? (I'm running 7.2 and got the updates from the 7.2 KDE page). _________________________________________________________ Tim Harrell
I had good luck by simply forcing the install using --nodeps and --force arguments to rpm. I used rpm -Fvh or -Uvh to upgrade all the packages, starting with libwhatever, qt, then kdelibs, kdebase, and the rest. Did you put on those funny little libogg, libvorbis, libdoodliesquat library collections found on the SuSE site? The dependencies all appear to sort themselves out once you've got all the packages on. Then ran SuSEconfig, and the job was done. What's more, I did the upgrading from within kde 2.1. It didn't seem to care. Why not give it a whizz? Best Fergus ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harrell, Tim" <HarrelT1@Midas-Kapiti.com> To: "'SuseLinux'" <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 10:36 AM Subject: [SLE] KDE 2-2 Dependency Hell
On Wednesday 29 August 2001 09:29 am, Jaakko Tamminen wrote:
A much easier method: 1) Download all rpm's to the same directory. 2) cd to that directory. 3) rpm -Uvh --test *.rpm (look for dependencies and other errors) 4) If (3) seems ok, rpm -Uvh --replacefiles *.rpm Add --nodeps to step (4) if necessary. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 08/29/01 09:52 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch." - Hermione Gingold, actress-comedienne (1897-1987)
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Bruce Marshall
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Fergus Wilde
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Harrell, Tim
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Jaakko Tamminen