Mandrake and KDE

[Donn Shumway]

From a command prompt, log into the directory where you downloaded all the
files and type 'urpmi *'

This worked great for 3.01.

Good Luck,
Donn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Achtenberg" <lists@ybnormal.org>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2002 5:50 PM
Subject: Mandrake and KDE


> I just installed Mandrake 8.2 and want to upgrade to KDE 3.0.2  It comes
with
> KDE 2.2.  I have downloaded the Mandrake rpmm's but have not been able to
add
> the directory with thme in tas a source ffor the Mandrake Update.  Every
time
> I try it goes to where it is trying to load the files for the source and
> hangs up.  I even let it run overnight.  The only way out is to power off
as
> it won't even shut down at that point.  The only thing I can think of is I
> don't know what to put in the "Actual path or synthesis" space on the
sopurce
> so I leave it blank.
>
> I tried to simply do a rpm -UV *.rpm in the folder but came up with 6
> dependency failures.  I can only find 3 of the needed files on rpmfind.
When
> I ran it again after downloading those 3 files the dependency failure list
> GREW to over 15.  This is why I want to use the updater but I can't add
the
> source.
>
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