On Sunday 29 February 2004 22:48, you wrote:
> I guess I could go back to Mandrake 9.0, but I figured
> since United Linux was pretty basic and not so vendor
> specific, I'd use that for upgrading and learning the ins
> and outs of Linux. I'm still a newbie here and am trying
> to learn as much as I can. Would I do better by going
> back to Mandrake or something else?
>
I thought United Linux was a pretty cool idea, and I finally got some CD's
together, and it didn't seem to have anything in the way of extras. I
definitely prefer Mandrake, which I have on the two systems I use every day.
On the other hand, there's a lot of enthusiasm in this group for Debian, so
even though that distro is more work up front, you'll be able to find a lot
of assistance from PLUG. ;-)
Vaughn
> > From: Matt Alexander <m@phxlinux.org>
> > Date: 2004/02/29 Sun PM 10:36:27 EST
> > To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > Subject: Re: Upgrading KDE
> >
> > On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Steven Cain wrote:
> > > Does anyone know what the procedure is to upgrade KDE?
>
> I'm trying to update
>
> > > my KDE to 3.2 but when I try to update the
>
> prequisites, the more I try
>
> > > ....the more prereqs I need. I've got the developer
>
> version of United Linux
>
> > > 1.0 and it seems like it doesn't have must for
>
> prereqs. These are the
>
> > > messages I get when I try to rpm any file like
>
> arts-1.2.0-2:
> > > libXcursor.so.1 is needed by .....
> > > libXft.so.2 is needed by .....
> > > libXrandr.so.2 is needed by .....
> > > libasound.so.2(ALSA_0.9)
> > > libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)
> > > libfontconfig.so.1
> > > libmad.so.0
> > > libpng.so.3
> > > libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.3.2)
> > > libstdc++.so.5(GLIBCPP_3.2.2)
> >
> > Yikes... Is your heart set on using United Linux? You
>
> could install
>
> > Fedora or Debian and use the official KDE 3.2 RPMs/Debs.
>
> They installed
>
> > without any problems for me. Otherwise you might wait
>
> until your distro
>
> > of choice includes KDE 3.2... Is UL still being
>
> maintained?
>
> > I'm sure you could eventually get KDE 3.2 installed on
>
> your UL box, but it
>
> > would probably be a long and extremely frustrating
>
> process.
>
> > ~M
> >
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