[lug] installing kde

[John Hernandez]

Michael - I think you want to install then simultaneously.  This should help RPM to resolve the cross-dependency issues.

ie.

rpm -U kde*-2.2.1-*.rpm

-John

"Michael J. Hammel" wrote:
> 
> Maybe someone else has had better luck with KDE on Red Hat than I, but
> getting KDE installed has never seemed to be simple due to all the
> dependencies.
> 
> I've downloaded all the files I think I need from the RPMs listed in the
> 2.2.1 announcement.  It's unclear which RPM to load first, but I suspect it
> is kdelibs, followed by kdebase.  kdelibs gives me the following problems:
> 
> mjhammel(tty2)$ rpm -Uvh kdelibs-2.2.1-1.i386.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
>         libfam.so.0   is needed by kdelibs-2.2.1-1
>         libpcreposix.so.0   is needed by kdelibs-2.2.1-1
>         libpcre.so.0   is needed by kdelibs-2.2.1-1
>         kdesupport is needed by kdeadmin-2.1.1-3
>         kdesupport >= 2.0.99 is needed by kdebase-2.1.1-8
>         kdesupport is needed by kdemultimedia-2.1.1-1
>         kdesupport is needed by kdenetwork-2.1.1-1
>         kdesupport is needed by kdeutils-2.1.1-1
>         kdesupport is needed by koffice-2.0.1-2
>         kdesupport is needed by kpppload-1.04-23
>         kdesupport is needed by kdegraphics-2.1.1-1
>         kdesupport = 2.1 is needed by kdesupport-devel-2.1-3
>         kdelibs = 2.1.2 is needed by kdelibs-sound-2.1.2-1
>         kdelibs = 2.1.2 is needed by kdelibs-devel-2.1.2-1
>         kdelibs = 2.1.2 is needed by kdelibs-sound-devel-2.1.2-1
>         libksasl.so   is needed by kdebase-2.1.1-8
> 
> I had other dependency problems, but I figured those out.  I can't find
> libfam anywhere.  No idea what it is.  The kdelibs lines above suggest I
> have to break some dependencies if I force this to install.  I do have the
> new devel and sound RPMs for kdelibs.  Do I need to remove the sound and
> devel packages for 2.1.2 first?
> 
> Then there is libprcre*, which I found but when I try to install it I get
> the following:
> 
> mjhammel(tty2)$ rpm -i pcre*
> file /usr/bin/pcregrep from install of pcre-3.4-0.rh7x.1 conflicts with
>   file from package kdesupport-2.1-3
> file /usr/lib/libpcreposix.so.0.0.0 from install of pcre-3.4-0.rh7x.1
>   conflicts with file from package kdesupport-2.1-3
> file /usr/share/man/man1/pcregrep.1.gz from install of pcre-3.4-0.rh7x.1
>   conflicts with file from package kdesupport-2.1-3
> file /usr/bin/pcre-config from install of pcre-devel-3.4-0.rh7x.1 conflicts
>   with file from package kdesupport-devel-2.1-3
> file /usr/lib/libpcreposix.la from install of pcre-devel-3.4-0.rh7x.1
>   conflicts with file from package kdesupport-devel-2.1-3
> file /usr/share/man/man3/pcre.3.gz from install of pcre-devel-3.4-0.rh7x.1
>   conflicts with file from package kdesupport-devel-2.1-3
> file /usr/share/man/man3/pcreposix.3.gz from install of
>   pcre-devel-3.4-0.rh7x.1 conflicts with file from package kdesupport-devel-2.1-3
> 
> Turns out I had an older version already installed.
> 
> These two attempts taken together seem to suggest that I need to remove
> kdesupport 2.1 and a bunch of other packages before upgrading anything.
> I'm leary of doing that without someone else saying thats what they did and
> everything is fine.  I don't want to break a working KDE environment trying
> to get to the newest one.
> 
> Any thoughts?  BTW, I'm running RH 7.1 (via KRUD).
> 
> --
> Michael J. Hammel                               The Graphics Muse
> mjhammel at graphics-muse.org                      http://www.graphics-muse.com
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