Mandrake and KDE

[Donn Shumway]

Sorry, my previous reply was a dorect response to your request. The 'urpmi
*' method only works if you have downloaded ALL the files necessary from the
Mandraske 8.2 tree including the libraries and they ar all in the same
directory.

I have had the same problem with the GUI front-end and don't use it any
longer. Try doing a 'man urpmi.addmedia' to build the necessary string to
add the directory from the command prompt. This usually works even if
Mandrake Update fails. If you have downloaded all the files in the KDE
directory for Mandrake 8.2, you should have all the necessary files and
'urpmi *' will work.

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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