Upgrading KDE 2.2

[Furmanek, Greg]

Static means that they are staticaly linked to the necessary functions
in the libraries. If you have dynamic libraries on your system that
are compatible with the KDE then you should not need the statically 
linked ones.

Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John W [mailto:wisdom04@home.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 8:38 PM
> To: PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Upgrading KDE 2.2
> 
> 
>  I have downloaded all the Mandrake rpm's for kde from the 
> kde ftp site.
> I downloaded them to a directory unto themselves and many are 
> not rpm's I 
> have installed at present. I currently have installed,
> kdeadmin 2.1.1-8mdk
> kdebase 2.1.1-13mdk
> kdegraphics 2.1.1-3mdk
> kdemultimedia 2.1.1-5mdk
> kdenetwork 2.1.1-2mdk
> kdepim 2.1.1-3mdk
> kdetoys 2.1.1-2mdk
> kdeutils 2.1.1-4mdk
> kvirc 2.1.0-4mdk
> kdegames 2.1.1-2mdk
> 
> I noticed some of the rpm's I downloaded say "static" in the 
> filename for 
> example "kdesdk-static-devel-2.2-1mdk.i586.rpm". Do I need to 
> have these or 
> can I delete them and use the standard rpm 
> "kdesdk-devel-2.2-1mdk.i586.rpm"
> I read through the archives and came across roughly three 
> different methods 
> of installing using rpm commands. Given my newbie status what 
> would be least 
> painful?
> 
> TIA,
> John W
> 
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