Whaaa...??


THe following packages have to be removed...blah blah:
libqt3-3.3.2-20mdk.i586 (in order to install libqt3-3..2.3-19.1.100mdk.i586)

Well, that's great, but about a zillion KDE apps use the file and I cannot update/replace it.
This is preventing me from installing/upgrading many packages. The most inportant one being:
checkinstall-1.6.0-0.beta3.2mdk

WHat gives? How can I do this without wrecking KDE -- SHould I update every kde application?

I have done this before and lost KDE -- I'm not in any hurry to do this.

Help, please.

machiner

You're in Dependency Hell. You could always try adding --force, or even stronger, --nodeps as an option when you try to install that package, but do so at your own risk. I am not guaranteeing that it won't trash your KDE installation.

You're trying to replace a bit of software that is fundamental to every KDE application. Naturally it's going to be difficult.

Instead of doing a "rpm -i pakage.rpm" do a "rpm -U pakage.rpm". The -U will upgrade the file instead of overwriting it and you won't have that problem.

Thanks for your response.

So -- in essence, what you're saying is that I am stuck with the versions that I have installed.

See -- that's pretty limiting. I guess I could uninstall all that is KDE, put Gnome on -- and then install all the latest KDE schtuff -- NAAH.

THat's not an option.

THis sucks -- I really like linux. However the more I try to do -- the more I realize how limited this OS is -- or my abilities - or a combo

Now -- hold on a second -- I know what I just said -- and Yeah -- I know it was said by a noob without much experience, but it seems to me if an OS expects to have users it might make it easy to update software. Don't tell me urpmi (dksldksl) -- urpmi is just another interface, that's all.

Yeah -- I saw a zillion posts already about this -- and universal installers and all that -- but this -- being my 6th mdk 10 install has so far been my best - in terms of the order I install things.

It sucks starting from scratch -- I do have a life. SOme of us don't want to be sysadmins -- I had my days with that already with NT.

So -- it feels like I have reached limits here with this install and I don't like it.

I don't mind having problems -- hell it's fun to work them out -- but like I said -- I DO have a life. I run a store-- and raise kids ( I don't get any sleep as it is ).

Looks like I back up my mail and firefox folders and start again? Or -- there is another solution.

Is it the mandrake distro? Do other distros enablr updating software?

THanks for reading and any advice

machiner

hammett -- you posted that right before I finished typing my rant -- I'll give that a whirl


machiner
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Let me know if -U works - been stuck in dependency hell myself enough times.

no dice

machiner
usage:
[root@localhost machiner]# rpm -U libqt3-3.2.3-19.1.100mdk.i586.rpm
error: open of libqt3-3.2.3-19.1.100mdk.i586.rpm failed: No such file or directory

[root@localhost machiner]# rpm -U libqt3-3.2.3-19.1.100mdk.i586
error: open of libqt3-3.2.3-19.1.100mdk.i586 failed: No such file or directory

[root@localhost machiner]# rpm -U libqt3-3.3.2-20mdk.i586
error: open of libqt3-3.3.2-20mdk.i586 failed: No such file or directory
[root@localhost machiner]# rpm -U libqt3-3.3.2-20mdk.i586.rpm
error: open of libqt3-3.3.2-20mdk.i586.rpm failed: No such file or directory

also tried with urpmi

dood, I'm a noob!

machiner

Um, at first glance it looks like you're issuing the rpm command from the wrong directory. The rpm file is in your currently selected directory, right?

ok -- lemme be less of a noob here

I am using MCC -- install software.
However, the commands I just posted were from my home directory, as root, in a terminal...hey I''m a NOOB!

So, what you're saying is to download the file, tar, all that ---be in the directory with a terminal and run the rpm command.

Ey?

thanks

machiner

I need a smoke--

I will download the file and attempt the commands -- will post

ok -- went to rpm pbonne --rpmfind --

downloaded libqt3-3.3.2-20mdk.i586

now, if I install this file, will it wreck any of my installed stuff? Those apps expect to see a different version -- ahh, I can trust everything to update? Ey??

[root@localhost machiner]# rpm -U libqt3-3.2.3-19.1.100mdk.i586.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
qt3-common = 3.2.3-19.1.100mdk is needed by libqt3-3.2.3-19.1.100mdk
libqt3 = 3.3.2-20mdk is needed by (installed) libqt3-devel-3.3.2-20mdk
libqt3 = 3.3.2 is needed by (installed) qt3-common-3.3.2-20mdk
[root@localhost machiner]#

no worries -- we're getting somewhere.

TO answer your question about the -U (
vasudevadas) I would say it works -- so long as dependencies are accounted for

machiner

this is really starting to suck ==

[root@localhost machiner]# rpm -U qt3-common-3.2.3-19.1.100mdk.i586.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
libqt3 = 3.2.3 is needed by qt3-common-3.2.3-19.1.100mdk
qt3-common = 3.3.2-20mdk is needed by (installed) libqt3-3.3.2-20mdk
[root@localhost machiner]# rpm -U libqt3-3.2.3-19.1.100mdk.i586.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
qt3-common = 3.2.3-19.1.100mdk is needed by libqt3-3.2.3-19.1.100mdk
libqt3 = 3.3.2-20mdk is needed by (installed) libqt3-devel-3.3.2-20mdk
libqt3 = 3.3.2 is needed by (installed) qt3-common-3.3.2-20mdk
[root@localhost machiner]#





screw it -- used rpmdrake- searched libgt3 -- got some unsigned stuff -- installed

machiner

You got the idea anyway.