Hi all,

I am running on Redhat 9 and I would like to update the kde to 3.1.4.

I can get the rpms but when I try to install them , there is alwatys some problem, such as ...
This package conflicts with this and so forth..

Do I need to uninstall all previous kde packages and then install the new version of kde ?
If not what can I do...


Roland

PS: Don't tell me to install it from the source cause it takes days...

If these RPMs aren't compiled for redhat9 then it won't work, but if you really want to install it you need to solve the dependency/conflict problems manually(like removing all the offending packages and install from scratch, RPMs are evil...). Also because redhat9 uses a heavily customised version of KDE so even if you manage to get it installed, things might break.

just pass ALL packages to be upgraded to rpm
together, not seperately....


Cheers,
Tink

The easiest way would be to upgrade to Fedora Core, by the way. Upgrading the desktop is typically not a good plan unless you really know what you're doing

Well, I know that if I install from the source code it's probably going to take a very very very long time.

I know about gentoo, whith emerge that downloads and compiles files on it's own.

I read about fedora with apt that deals with the problem that I am concerned with, but it's still not the answer to my current problem.


I wondered if I could use the rpm format to over write the pre-existing files, having no conflictuations, and no dependencies.

So far I know only how to supress the dependecies by:
rpm -ivh --nodeps filename.rpm

but when it comes to overwrite previously existinf files or conflictuations, I have no solution so far...

If you have any ideas please feel free to sggest,

Thanks for helping,

Roland

I upgraded KDE 3.1.0 to KDE 3.1.4, on Mandrake 9.1, using Mandrake 9.1 specific RPMS (from texstar) from the console, with urpmi.

Everything was fine. I just downloaded the kdebase=3.1.4, and it listed the other KDE packages that had to be installed. I said yes, install them. It finished, I logged out, and when I logged in again I had KDE 3.1.4. Everything ran great.

Maybe you could find some Red Hat 9 specific RPMs?

Use these:
ftp://subraum.rhrz.uni-bonn.de
/pub/kde/stable/3.1.4/RedHat/9/i386
download everything in the directory to an empty directory in your /home
become root
type rpm -u *
that should work

thank you to you all...


I got the packages from: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis...rake/9.1/rpms/ (thanks mary)

with flashget(in windows) I got them all in 30 mins....

There were a lot of conflicts and dependencies... Yet, I found the way to deal with them:

rpm -U --nodeps --allfiles --force filename.rpm

the command works for every thing... no need to deal with any spearately.... you can do something like this

rpm -U --nodeps --allfiles --force a* --- this will install all files that begin with 'a'

by changing the letters ... gosh it's fast to install everything...

finally something useful about linux.....

now, I am running kde 3.14 and gnome 2.4 ,,, looks great...

I hope to learn enough to assist other people...

have a nice night everybody !

roland

One thing to watch out for, is KDE is very touchy about qt.
Make sure you get a version of qt that will play nice with the version of KDE you want to install

I didn't give it much chance actually, but so far it looks fine... there are still some bugs with konqueror though,,, however it's way better...