Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 17:03:21 -0800 (PST) From: "S.Toms" Message-ID: Subject: Re: KDE 201 upgrade/install On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Ralph Sanford wrote: rs> I recently tried to install KDE 201 on to my computer which has Suse 7. rs> My lack of computer skills must be showing because I can not even get it rs> to start to install. rs> rs> I went to the Suse ftp site and downloaded all the kde20 files into rs> /opt/kde201. The FAQ at the Suse site says to run the script rs> update_kde2.sh if installing all of the packages. I have all the rs> packages, but my computer does not have a file named update_kde2.sh and rs> the Suse site search also does not have the update script. What did I rs> miss? rs> rs> Try method 2 to install. Since I have all the rpm packages on my rs> computer I tried to use Yast1. Loaded Yast, went to change the rs> installation media to a reachable directory. Yast asked from which rs> directory, I typed in /opt/KDE201 and Yast responded with an error rs> message "could not find source directory". ???? The directory is there rs> and the files are there. I tried to get Yast to see other directories rs> related to /opt and not related to /opt, always received the same error rs> message. How do I get Yast1 to recognize a reachable directory on my rs> computer? rs> THe rpms you downloaded are for 2.01 whereas the faq on the website was for 2.0 as well as the script your looking for was for 2.0 which unfortunately is no longer on their web/ftp sites. SuSE has also been asked a few times on the website to maybe update the faq and provide a update install script for those who are weary of doing an install of this magnitude, unsure what may come of that. If your willing to do the install, theres a couple possible routes for you. You can either start installing each rpm package manually with the following rpm -Uvh <package name> which has the advantage of upgrading a previously installed package to the version of the package your installing. But if the package doesn't currently exist the it will now which personally I don't like. Or you can try the following rpm -Fvh <package name> which has the advantage of only installing the package if an earlier version of the package you are currently installing exists, that way your doing an actual upgrade rather then a install which could add things you don't necessarily need. The downside of the -F (freshen) command is that there could now be a dependency issue with a new package from 2.01 which didn't get installed by the -F because you didn't have an earlier version of the same package installed from the 2.0 series of packages. rs> Or, is there a less challenging way to install KDE201? rs> rs> Suse 7.0 rs> Yast1 1.07.1 rs> rs> Thanks, rs> rs> rs> Ralph Sanford - If your government does not trust you, rs> rsanford@telusplanet.net - should you trust your government? rs> rs> DH/DSS Key - 0x7A1BEA01 rs> +*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ rs> For my public PGP key send email with subject: "Send_PGP_Key" rs> +*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ rs> rs> rs> rs> -- S.Toms - tomas@primenet.com - www.primenet.com/~tomas SuSE Linux v7.0+ - Kernel 2.2.17 Some programming languages manage to absorb change but withstand progress.