* Tom Achtenberg (tom@christ4me.com) wrote: > Gontran > > I am somewhat new to Linux still. Please explain what any of what you wrote > means as it made absolutely no sense to me. . That was the output of a packaging system called 'portage' used by Gentoo Linux (http://www.gentoo.org/) when I asked 'What would happen if I upgraded to KDE3 today?'. Some packages were 'U'pgraded, some 'N'ew dependencies would be installed. Distro not for the impatient. Oh yeah, read about what area local Sherman wrote about it: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/3/19109/75936 With regard to KDE3, I guess you can just hang on a few weeks and reinstall your whole OS. Gontran