Thomas, El Lun 21 Mar 2005 11:39, Thomas Stieler escribió:
Many rpms that I would expect (such as kdebase-3.4.* ) could not be found within the SuSE-8.2-directory.
What's wrong with the 8.2-binarys?
Well, I last week posted the same question, without getting any answers. I am also still running 8.2 systems, which are stable and doing their job very well. This isn't MS Windows, so why should there be blame if you decide not to upgrade? Very soon 9.3 will be out, and I believe 8.2 will then not longer be maintained by SuSE. That is, no more security updates for their rpm packages, no more precompiled KDE or Gnome packages, etc. Maybe SuSE in the coming days and weeks will complete the packages for KDE 3.4, but I suspect that may rather no be the case. I decided to compile from source, using the Konstruct tool set which can be downloaded from the KDE website. Many libraries on my systems had been updated by compiling the respective source packages before, as the rpm packages offered by SuSE for 8.2 are versions two years old, and many times I had to update libraries to be able to compile and use recent versions of software like GIMP. Maybe there are some dependencies for KDE which must be provided for in SuSE 8.2, rather than providing simply KDE packages on top of all the rest - an obvious one is cyrus-sasl, which needs to be newer than the 2.0.12 version distributed with 8.2. I would have preferred if SuSE had simply announced that KDE 3.4 will not be provided any more on 8.2. Putting on their servers some packages and not others is simply confusing. Without the kdebase3 packages, the 'base' system of KDE, including Konqueror, will not be updated. I don't know which problems that may cause, as I decided to try and see how it can be done from source, as very soon this will be the only method left to us who opt to not upgrade stable machines in which many hours of tweaking and configuration work have been invested. Try it out - you even can install KDE from source in a directory different from that where the current version lives, so the risk is minimal. Regards, -- Andreas Philipp Noema Ltda. Bogotá, D.C. - Colombia http://www.noemasol.com