KDE 3.2 for Fedora

ranger_nemo · 02-04-2004, 02:18 PM

I downloaded the RPMs last night straight off a KDE mirror. Installed them in 5 minutes, and they went in fine. It was past midnight, so I didn't have much time to play. Looks good, though.

orbiteleven · 02-04-2004, 08:29 PM

I'm having trouble getting them to load. I've only gotten as far as qt, and it's giving me "dependancy hell"

How did you get it to load?

Code:

rpm -U qt-*
error: Failed dependencies:
        /usr/lib/qt-3.1 is needed by (installed) redhat-artwork-0.88-1

ranger_nemo · 02-04-2004, 10:07 PM

I ran it in groups. Let me flip through my bash history...

rpm -Uvh kdebase* kdelibs* arts*

I started X to see it, and it loaded, fine

apt-get install xmms <== to get libxmms, needed by multimedia

rpm -Uvh kdemultimedia* kdenetwork*
rpm -Uvh kdeaddons* kdeart*

I got tired of just a couple at a time, so I created a not-installed directory and moved all the *devel* RPMs there. And, all the kdepim*. And, all the qt-* except the base. And, and all the kdesdk*. And, quanta*.

rpm -Uvh *.rpm

orbiteleven · 02-04-2004, 10:36 PM

I keep stubling on "redhat-artwork", which is a dependancy of almost my entire GNOME setup. I'd like to see the new KDE, but am a GNOME user now, and can't just uninstall everything.

I hope I don't have to wait for Fedora 2, but I might...

mmc · 02-05-2004, 06:10 AM

Tip: If you have been running the "Latest & Greatest" you need to remove via rpm -e lm_sensors if you have that dependancy problem and search rpmfiind redris for it

The latest is 2.8.3 but kde 3.2 needs 2.8.1

urkhaa1975 · 02-05-2004, 07:17 AM

Any idea on how to resolve the conflict problem of redhat-artwork with gtk+ 1.2 ?? otherwise I can't install kde 3.2 i think.....

Anzxio · 02-05-2004, 07:51 AM

Whatever i do i seem to get dependency problems

Now i am VERY new to Linux so am probably making stupid mistakes!

I have downloaded all the rpm's that are on these mirror sites for Fedora, KDE 3.2. But what do i do now? (simple instructions if you could

).

Thank-you

[edit]
If i do, rpm -Uvh *rpm i get this:
error: failed dependencies
kdeartwork = 3.2.0 is needed by kdeartwork-icons-.2.0-0.1
libnetsnap.so.5 is needed by kdeutils-3.2.0-0.1
libodbc.so.1 is needed by qt-odbc-3.2.3-0.2

Any ideas at all?

urkhaa1975 · 02-05-2004, 11:42 AM

I finally succeded in installing KDE3.2

FIrst of all I've installed qt*.rpms. I've had some problems so I'v firstly remove kdearts* of distribution 3.1.5 because of some dependancies.

Successively for overcoming the problem with gtk I've do the following:

rpm -ev redhat-artwork gtk+ --nodeps

then I've installed the redhar-artwork and then I've followed what posted by ranger_nemo installign first the X envirorment
then before continuing I've reinstalled gtk+ by
yum install gtk+

and then installed all the other kde
kdemultimedia kdenetwork kdepim kdeartwork

and it'finally worked

Anzxio · 02-05-2004, 12:01 PM

When i do:

rpm -Uvh qt*.rpm

I get this problem:
error: failed dependencies
/usr/lib/qt-3.1 is needed by (installed) redhat-artwork0.88-1

Any ideas about that one?

orbiteleven · 02-05-2004, 12:52 PM

urkhaa1975,

Does GNOME work as well as KDE after your setup? It seems like if I remove "redhat-artwork", I'll lose a lot of my GNOME functionality.

Anzxio · 02-05-2004, 01:00 PM

Ok i've killed it now!

I can't see any of my files in Konqueor It says:
Could not start process Unable to create io-slave:
klauncher said: Error loading 'kio file'

Damn! Any ideas?

krdp · 02-05-2004, 02:30 PM

this howto might help you guys out: http://fedoranews.org/krishnan/tutorial/kde3.2/ I haven't installed KDE 3.2 yet I'm going to hold off on it for a while. I hope this helps.

orbiteleven · 02-05-2004, 02:35 PM

krdp,

That how-to just says to put all the rpms in a folder then rpm -ivh * or rpm -Uvh *

Unfortunately, it seems that several of us :newbies: are having problems with dependencies.

It seems that the "redhat-artwork" package cannot deal with QT upgrades, and most of the GNOME stuff (GTK+, Nautilus, etc) relies on it. I worry about removing redhat-artwork, as it may screw up GNOME, which is my default desktop environment.

ranger_nemo · 02-05-2004, 03:01 PM

Well, I don't use GNOME, so I didn't have a problem. I guess those of you who do might have to wait for an "official" set of RPMs from Fedora... That might fix the dependency trouble. Otherwise, you'll have to decide whether trying the new KDE is more important than having GNOME.

jwb · 02-05-2004, 03:12 PM

I normally use Gnome, but since I used to be a KDE user, I thought I'd give it a try.

I downloaded all the RPM's, and just did rpm -Uvh * and let it go. Worked fine. Created a test user, logged in to KDE, poked around, and went back to Gnome.

I didn't already have KDE on the system, but I still used the U instead of i...... avoids trouble.

Didn't have any issues with the artwork package others mentioned..... don't know why, so I can't help out there- sorry.

If I were still a KDE user, I'd *love* 3.2. But so much of the stuff that made me dislike KDE has been increased that I was quite happy to get back to Gnome.

Still, there are some nice improvements there for KDE. Glad to see they've got Kontact now, which pulls things together nicely.