Is there a way to upgrade to the KDE 3.4 kernel from this distro. I have seen tutorials on upgrading to KDE 3.4 from SuSE 9.2, but I haven't seen a tutorial for SuSE 9.0 Pro.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Here's the .rpm and instructions are the same.

I attempted to download the upgrades, and I was successful in figuring out how to do it. But before the upgrade, YaST found a whole list of dependancy problems. I did not feel comfortable telling it to ignore all of these dependancies, so I did not complete the upgrade.

What could be the cause of the dependency problems? Or, is this normal? Should I ignore the dependencies and conflicts?

Maybe there is something I must do to my current system first.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Some dependency issues are OK. Some packages do not exist anymore, others have been merged. If you are unsure, post the list of dependencies and we'll have a look together.

ignore dependencies at your peril.
The easiest way to upgrade KDE is to use YAST.
If you need instructions on how, just post here and I'll take you though the steps.

Yes, I would love instructions for a 9.0 Pro user. As I said, I found instructions and followed them. They worked perfectly, except for the dependency problems.

I don't see why there would be dependency problems. Would these be eliminated if I upgraded my SuSE distro?

Well, I confirmed that upgrading the SuSE won't help. I tried to upgrade just the OS, but I received a warning for just as many dependencies.

How can there be this many dependency problems when I am using a SuSE OS right off of the CD? This doesn't make any sense. The upgrade should work.

As I told you before, it is KDE that has changed. For example if you have KDE 3.2 installed on your system, you might use the package kdepim3-organizer. This package does not exist in KDE 3.4 anymore (it has merged with the kdepim3-base package), so it will not appear in the list to be updated. However, it will remain on your computer and depend on other KDE components that will be updated. This creates the dependency problem (even on my system, where I updated from KDE 3.3 to 3.4). But it is not really a problem, since you can safely delete the package that creates the message. Know what I mean?

Here's the best guide that I've seen for updating KDE:
http://www.zzzzx.plus.com/websites/suse_9.1/yast.html
It works for 9.0 as well.

Let me know how you get on.

abisko00,

Thanks for the help so far. Here is the list of dependency conflicts. I don't know if these are something that I should ignore or not. Maybe you can help determine which ones might cause a problem if I ignore them. Sorry, the list is in French, because the computer I am working on is in French, but the applications should still be readable (or maybe you speak a little French--I hope). I can provide an English list, but that would take me some time to do.

Thanks,


cryptplug 0.3.16-97 conflit
Conflits avec :
kdepim3 rend cryptplug obsolète
Résolution de conflit :
( ) Ne pas actualiser cryptplug
( ) Supprimer tous les paquetages conflictuels 5
Suppression de susehelp
Suppression de susehelp_en
Suppression de kshowmail
Suppression de kdebase3-SuSE
Suppression de kdepim3
kbarcode 1.8.1-5 conflit
Exigences non remplies :
kbarcode nécessite /usr/bin/convert
Résolution de conflit :
( ) Ne pas actualiser kbarcode
( ) Ignorer ce conflit au risque d'incohérences du système
kdebase3 3.4.0-30 conflit
Requis par :
kdeaddons3-kate nécessite libkateinterfaces.so.0
kdeaddons3-kate nécessite libkateutils.so.0
kdeaddons3-konqueror nécessite libkonqsidebarplugin.so.1
kdeartwork3 nécessite libkdecorations.so.1
thinkeramik nécessite libkdecorations.so.1
Conflits avec :
kdebase3 est en conflit avec kdebase3-SuSE <= 9.0-
Résolution de conflit :
( ) Ne pas actualiser kdebase3
( ) Supprimer tous les paquetages conflictuels 7
Suppression de susehelp
Suppression de susehelp_en
Suppression de kdebase3-SuSE
Suppression de kdeaddons3-kate
Suppression de kdeaddons3-konqueror
Suppression de kdeartwork3
Suppression de thinkeramik
( ) Ignorer ce conflit au risque d'incohérences du système
kdenetwork3-mail 3.1.4-27 conflit
Conflits avec :
kdepim3 rend kdenetwork3-mail obsolète
Résolution de conflit :
( ) Ne pas actualiser kdenetwork3-mail
( ) Supprimer tous les paquetages conflictuels 2
Suppression de kshowmail
Suppression de kdepim3
kdenetwork3-mail 3.1.4-41 conflit
Exigences non remplies :
kdenetwork3-mail nécessite libkdenetwork.so.2
Résolution de conflit :
( ) Ne pas actualiser kdenetwork3-mail
( ) Ignorer ce conflit au risque d'incohérences du système
kdepim3-organizer 3.1.4-26 conflit
Conflits avec :
kdepim3 rend kdepim3-organizer obsolète
Résolution de conflit :
( ) Ne pas actualiser kdepim3-organizer
( ) Supprimer tous les paquetages conflictuels 2
Suppression de kshowmail
Suppression de kdepim3
kdepim3-organizer 3.1.4-40 conflit
Exigences non remplies :
kdepim3-organizer nécessite libkalarmd.so.0
kdepim3-organizer nécessite libkcalsystem.so.0
Résolution de conflit :
( ) Ne pas actualiser kdepim3-organizer
( ) Ignorer ce conflit au risque d'incohérences du système
kgamma 1.0.1-281 conflit
Conflits avec :
kdegraphics3 rend kgamma obsolète
Résolution de conflit :
( ) Ne pas actualiser kgamma
( ) Supprimer le paquetage conflictuel
Suppression de kdegraphics3
kgpg 1.0.0-200 conflit
Conflits avec :
kdeutils3 rend kgpg obsolète
Résolution de conflit :
( ) Ne pas actualiser kgpg
( ) Supprimer le paquetage conflictuel
Suppression de kdeutils3
libieee1284 Non disponible
Requis par :
sane nécessite libieee1284
Résolution de conflit :
( ) Supprimer le paquetage conflictuel
Suppression de sane
( ) Ignorer ce conflit au risque d'incohérences du système
libkalarmd.so.0 Non disponible
Requis par :
kdepim3-organizer nécessite libkalarmd.so.0
Résolution de conflit :
( ) Supprimer le paquetage conflictuel
Suppression de kdepim3-organizer
( ) Ignorer ce conflit au risque d'incohérences du système
libkcalsystem.so.0 Non disponible
Requis par :
kdepim3-organizer nécessite libkcalsystem.so.0
Résolution de conflit :
( ) Supprimer le paquetage conflictuel
Suppression de kdepim3-organizer
( ) Ignorer ce conflit au risque d'incohérences du système
libkdenetwork.so.2 Non disponible
Requis par :
kdenetwork3-mail nécessite libkdenetwork.so.2
Résolution de conflit :
( ) Supprimer le paquetage conflictuel
Suppression de kdenetwork3-mail
( ) Ignorer ce conflit au risque d'incohérences du système
sane 1.0.15-14 conflit
Exigences non remplies :
sane nécessite libieee1284
Résolution de conflit :
( ) Ne pas actualiser sane
( ) Ignorer ce conflit au risque d'incohérences du système
/usr/bin/convert Non disponible
Requis par :
kbarcode nécessite /usr/bin/convert
Résolution de conflit :
( ) Supprimer le paquetage conflictuel
Suppression de kbarcode
( ) Ignorer ce conflit au risque d'incohérences du système

It's a long list, but I do my best:

Before you run the update:
1. delete 'kbarcode' unless you are using a barcode reader
2. delete 'kdenetwork3-mail' because its functionallity is merged with kdepim3
3. delete 'kdepim3-organizer' (same reason)
4. delete 'kgpg' because this comes with kdeutils3
5. install libieee1284 from packman.iu-bremen.de (directory suse/9.0), maybe sane as well
6. delete 'cryptplug'
Now run the update again.
7. ignore confilict with kdebase3-SUSE. This package makes the SUSE-look and is not available for the update, but the old works as well.