KDE Upgrade to 3.0

[Alan Dayley]

I have been think about doing exactly this but now I want to watch how you 
get it done.  Why be the guinea pig when there already is one?  ;^)

1. How did you install the KDE 2.2.2?

2. DON'T use "--nodeps"!  At least I won't ever again.  An upgrade is not 
important enough to end up with a broken system.  That is what happened to 
me, anyway.  Just MHO.

3. Have you considered installing from the source?  Sometimes the RPMs were 
created or whatever (I don't fully understand them yet) on a system that 
doesn't match your own in some way.  I don't know how many RPMs that were 
"for RedHat 7.2" I have attempted and failed but compiling the source worked 
fine once I had all the dependencies worked out.

4. Where did you get the RPMs?  I might go try it too, even though you are 
the first "official" guinea pig.

Alan

On Thursday 04 April 2002 07:18 pm, you wrote:
> I downloaded all the new KDE 3.0 Red Hat rpm's last night.  Now when I go
> to install them on my Red Hat 7.2 system using "rpm -Uvh *.rpm"  I get a
> couple dozen dependency failures mostly saying something such as lib.so.2
> is needed by kde2.2.2 something.  Since I am upgrading the KDE 2.2 to 3.0
> how do I get rid of the dependencies needed by the old KDE?  I tried using
> "rpm -ivh *.rpm" and had fewer dependency failures and they were mostly
> related to gphoto.  I tried using the --nodeps switch and still got a whole
> bunch of conflict errore on files conflicting with the old KDE2.2.2  HELP!
>
>
> Tom Achtenberg
>