Hi All
I know this probably has been covered before but is there an easy painless way to upgrade to the latest stable version of KDE?
I am currently running 3.1.4-4 Red Hat yum has not upgraded this, perhaps because of the title not sure really, I have looked at KDE's site and could download the latest version but I don't seem to be able to find instructions for upgrading my system.
I have a basic knowledge RPM and have done configure make make install but just let it run its course I wouldn't know what to do if it went wrong.
Will I need to un-install the Red Hat version and install 3.2 or is there a way to upgrade?
Regards
Peter Cannon
peter@cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk
"And when Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer."
You might want to read the following article, it goes into how to upgrade to 3.2
http://fedoranews.org/krishnan/tutorial/kde3.2/
Regards, Elvio
On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 12:27, Peter Cannon wrote:
Hi All
I know this probably has been covered before but is there an easy painless way to upgrade to the latest stable version of KDE?
I am currently running 3.1.4-4 Red Hat yum has not upgraded this, perhaps because of the title not sure really, I have looked at KDE's site and could download the latest version but I don't seem to be able to find instructions for upgrading my system.
I have a basic knowledge RPM and have done configure make make install but just let it run its course I wouldn't know what to do if it went wrong.
Will I need to un-install the Red Hat version and install 3.2 or is there a way to upgrade?
Regards
Peter Cannon
peter@cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk
"And when Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer."
I downloaded all the files to a temp directory, then I used the command rpm -Uvh <insert filenames here> be sure to use the * wildcard so you don't have to type all the filenames. example: kde*.rpm qt*.rpm
Austin
On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 03:27, Peter Cannon wrote:
Hi All
I know this probably has been covered before but is there an easy painless way to upgrade to the latest stable version of KDE?
I am currently running 3.1.4-4 Red Hat yum has not upgraded this, perhaps because of the title not sure really, I have looked at KDE's site and could download the latest version but I don't seem to be able to find instructions for upgrading my system.
I have a basic knowledge RPM and have done configure make make install but just let it run its course I wouldn't know what to do if it went wrong.
Will I need to un-install the Red Hat version and install 3.2 or is there a way to upgrade?
Regards
Peter Cannon
peter@cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk
"And when Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer."
Hi Austin
Many thanks for your advice which is appreciated. I tried that and most of the rpm's cried about dependencies, I should point out my fedora/applications is probably installed badly, I have red carpet installed which is good for newbies like me however red carpet wants to un-install lots of stuff due to what it says are conflicts, which is strange as everything seems to work fine.
I did find some server details to add to my yum.conf file now that looked very promising but that failed to due to a conflict with I think a help file?!!
I reckon I'm going to have to un-install KDE 2.1 and then re-install 3.2 which is a pain plus 7 months of usage/customisation down the drain.
Like most newbies I have made the mistake of installing programs rather than upgrading or freshening an example is I have Evolution installed from Red Hat 9 as I didn't know what I was doing I installed Evolution 1.4 now I think I have two versions of Evolution installed and am scared to un-install in case I loose anything.
On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 21:43, Austin Isler wrote:
I downloaded all the files to a temp directory, then I used the command rpm -Uvh <insert filenames here> be sure to use the * wildcard so you don't have to type all the filenames. example: kde*.rpm qt*.rpm
Austin
Like most newbies I have made the mistake of installing programs rather than upgrading or freshening an example is I have Evolution installed from Red Hat 9 as I didn't know what I was doing I installed Evolution 1.4 now I think I have two versions of Evolution installed and am scared to un-install in case I loose anything.
Nothing to worry about - evolution stores everything in /home/<user>/evolution in standard mbox format. It will not get corrupt if you use it on different versions.
Back it up, just in case, and use rpm -qa | grep evolution and remove the older version with rpm -e <package>
On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 21:43, Austin Isler wrote:
I downloaded all the files to a temp directory, then I used the command rpm -Uvh <insert filenames here> be sure to use the * wildcard so you don't have to type all the filenames. example: kde*.rpm qt*.rpm
Austin
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Regards
Peter Cannon
peter@cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk
"And when Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer."
Peter Cannon said:
Many thanks for your advice which is appreciated. I tried that and most of the rpm's cried about dependencies, I should point out my fedora/applications is probably installed badly, I have red carpet installed which is good for newbies like me however red carpet wants to un-install lots of stuff due to what it says are conflicts, which is strange as everything seems to work fine.
pete, if you're looking for a nice gui to install everything with, check out synaptic.
http://www.linuxadvocate.net/apt
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Hi Duncan
On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 13:26, duncan brown wrote:
pete, if you're looking for a nice gui to install everything with, check out synaptic.
Downloading/installing now let you know in a bit my thoughts (Currently use yum (text mode)
On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 13:26, duncan brown wrote:
pete, if you're looking for a nice gui to install everything with, check out synaptic.
http://www.linuxadvocate.net/apt
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This is the type of problem I keep getting I now have apt installed but cannot install synaptic.
Here is the output I get:
The following packages have unmet dependencies: GConf2-devel: Depends: libxml2-devel (>= 2.4.12) but it is not going to be installed PyQt-devel: Depends: PyQt (= 3.8.1-2) but it is not going to be installed SDL_image-devel: Depends: SDL_image (= 1.2.3) but it is not going to be installed SDL_mixer-devel: Depends: SDL_mixer (= 1.2.4) but it is not going to be installed SDL_net-devel: Depends: SDL_net (= 1.2.4-8) but it is not going to be installed eel2-devel: Depends: libxml2-devel (>= 2.4.20) but it is not going to be installed evolution-pilot: Depends: evolution (= 1.4.5-0.ximian.6.0) but 1.4.5-7 is to be installed gcc-objc: Depends: libobjc (= 3.3.2-1) but it is not going to be installed gnome-desktop-devel: Depends: startup-notification-devel (>= 0.5) but it is not going to be installed gnome-pilot-applet: Depends: gnome-pilot (= 2.0.10-0.ximian.6.1) but 1:2.0.10-0.ximian.6.1 is to be installed gtk-doc: Depends: docbook-style-xsl but it is not going to be installed Depends: docbook-utils but it is not going to be installed gtkam: Depends: libgphoto2.so.2 Depends: libgphoto2_port.so.0 gtkhtml-devel: Depends: gal-devel (>= 0.24) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libxml-devel but it is not going to be installed kdegraphics: Depends: libgphoto2.so.2 Depends: libgphoto2_port.so.0 lesstif-devel: Depends: lesstif (= 0.93.36) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libMrm.so.1 Depends: libXm.so.1 libbonobo-devel: Depends: libxml2-devel (>= 2.4.21) but it is not going to be installed libbonoboui-devel: Depends: libxml2-devel (>= 2.5) but it is not going to be installed libglade-devel: Depends: libxml-devel (>= 1.8.16) but it is not going to be installed libglade2-devel: Depends: libxml2-devel (>= 2.4.12-0.7) but it is not going to be installed libgnome-devel: Depends: libxml2-devel (>= 2.5) but it is not going to be installed libgnomeui-devel: Depends: libxml2-devel (>= 2.5) but it is not going to be installed libgtop-devel: Depends: libgtop (= 1:1.0.12) but it is not going to be installed libole2-devel: Depends: libole2 (= 0.2.4) but it is not going to be installed librsvg2-devel: Depends: libgsf-devel but it is not going to be installed Depends: libxml2-devel (>= 2.4.12) but it is not going to be installed libxslt-devel: Depends: libxml2-devel (>= 2.5.6) but it is not going to be installed pspell-compat: Conflicts: pspell (< 0.50) xfig: Depends: transfig (>= 1:3.2.4) but it is not going to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
I have tried the '-f install' suggestion without success so now I have another half program installed
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