KDE Upgrade to 3.0

[Dan Brown]

I just completed this yesterday and am up and running KDE 3.0 on 
RedHat 7.2 (Linux lisa 2.4.9-13custom #1 Mon Feb 4 17:31:45 MST 
2002 i686 unknown).  Here's what I did:

First, I removed these files (rpm -e):

   kdebase-2.2.2-1                                                                    
   kdeartwork-2.2.2-1                                                              
   kdepim-2.2.2-3                                                                   
   kdepim-pilot-2.2.2-3                                                             
   kdelibs-2.2.2-2
   kdetoys-2.2.2-1
   kdeartwork-locolor-2.2.2-1
   kdemultimedia-2.2.2-2
   kdenetwork-2.2.2-1
   kdelibs-sound-2.2.2-2
   kdebindings-perl-2.2.2-1
   koffice-1.1.1-2
   kdegraphics-2.2.2-1
   kdeutils-2.2.2-1
   licq-kde-1.0.3-7

I had to go out to rpmfind.net to obtain:

   libxml2-2.4.19-2mdk.i586.rpm
   pilot-link-0.9.5-ximian.2.i386.rpm

Then I installed (rpm -Uhv) these:

   kdebase-3.0.0-2.i386.rpm                                                        
   kdeartwork-3.0.0-3.i386.rpm                                                     
   kdepim-3.0.0-1.i386.rpm                                                         
   kdepim-pilot-3.0.0-1.i386.rpm                                                   
   kdelibs-3.0.0-4.i386.rpm                                                        
   kdetoys-3.0.0-1.i386.rpm                                                        
   kdeartwork-3.0.0-3.i386.rpm                                                     
   kdeartwork-kworldclock-3.0.0-3.i386.rpm                                         
   kdeartwork-locolor-3.0.0-3.i386.rpm
   kdeartwork-screensavers-3.0.0-3.i386.rpm
   kdemultimedia-arts-3.0.0-1.i386.rpm
   kdemultimedia-kfile-3.0.0-1.i386.rpm
   kdemultimedia-libs-3.0.0-1.i386.rpm
   kdenetwork-devel-3.0.0-1.i386.rpm
   kdenetwork-libs-3.0.0-1.i386.rpm
   cups-devel-1.1.14-10.i386.rpm
   cups-libs-1.1.14-10.i386.rpm
   qt-3.0.3-5.i386.rpm
   qt-devel-3.0.3-5.i386.rpm
   arts-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm
   libxml2-2.4.19-2mdk.i586.rpm
   pilot-link-0.9.5-ximian.2.i386.rpm

During the install, I received (about 5 times during various pkg 
installs) a message about something like "Kbuildsycoca" (at least I 
know "sycoca" was in the message and when I do a "locate coca" I 
see there is a /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca).  I did the install while 
still running KDE so that might have been the cause.  After the 
install I logged out of KDE and logged back in and everything has 
been working fine since then except for the Help (e.g., in KMail 
selecting Help->KMail handbook pops the help window but instead of 
help I get an error (while loading help:/kmail/index.html: could 
not start process  Unable to create io-slave: klauncher said: Error 
loading 'kio-help'.).

Hope this helps.  And, while it's not essential, if anyone has a 
clue about the help error I'm getting, please pass it along.

Dan

On Thursday 04 April 2002 07:18 pm, Tom Achtenberg 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
>
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