Man! My KDE 3.2 is screwed up :(

bad_andy · 10-14-2004, 06:37 PM

While trying to upgrade from KDE 3.2 to 3.3, YaST installed some of the components before it froze on the KDElib... file. I just can't get past that part of the installation. Now my KDE 3.2 doesn't work as well as it did before.

Is there anyway to reverse the updates that I made so that I can start again? I really want to upgrade to 3.3.

P.S. I'm using SuSE 9.1 Pro

kastorff · 10-14-2004, 07:02 PM

Best thing might be to revert to KDE 3.2 from the CDs/DVD. Then try the upgrade again...if you want.

bad_andy · 10-14-2004, 07:11 PM

How do I do that? Sorry, but I still don't have a good feel for SuSE yet.

gerry · 10-15-2004, 03:42 AM

I would go to the suse website and grimly install everything on there for KDE3.3 - starting with qt, then arts - if you've screwed something up already, yast might complain when you try and update, but as the kde3.3 set from there works - I know I'm using them, just igonre the dependencies. By the time you get to the other end you should have overwritten the problem stuff

But it's your decision

scobiej · 10-15-2004, 03:54 AM

Take a look at http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/
It's a much better way of doing upgrades and it just works. Upgrading from 3.2 to 3.3 and just recently 3.3.1 was a breeze. I very rarely, if ever, use YOU (YaST Online Upate).

bad_andy · 10-15-2004, 06:27 AM

Ok, so I downloaded the APT packages. Now, when I try to install it with rpm -Uvh, it says that all these lib files are needed--it's a huge list. This is so frustrating...I can't even install a simple program without running into problems.

scobiej · 10-16-2004, 01:49 PM

Paste the error list in a reply and I'll see what I can do for you.