Ya know, I've been futzing with getting KDE 3.0 binaries installed on
several distros and it's been a huge pain in the arse.  Even when I have
gotten it installed, it's been flaky.  My strong recommendation is to
either build it from source, or just wait a couple more weeks for
whichever distro includes it.
~M


On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Kevin Brown wrote:

> man rpm
>
> rpm -i <- install
> rpm -U <- upgrade or install if not present
> rpm -F <- upgrade only if previous version present
>
> Matt wrote:
> >
> > I know this topic has come up I'm using SuSE Personal 7.3, and I'm
> > trying to upgrade to KDE 3. I downloaded all the packages from SuSE's
> > LINUKS thing, and I installed most of them by opening up Konsole and
> > typing /rpm -ivh "package location", /but it failed a few of them due to
> > pre-existing files or dependencies on other files (but I'm guessing that
> > the latter may be due to the former). I checked the archives, but they
> > got me nowhere. Help.
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