[lug] installing kde

[Bernard Johnston]

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>Message: 1
>From: "Michael J. Hammel" <mjhammel at graphics-muse.org>
>To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us (Boulder Linux User's Group)
>Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:07:56 -0500 (CDT)
>Subject: [lug] installing kde
>Reply-To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
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>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).
>
John,

I went through this myself last week, twice actually! I'm running RedHat 
7.1 and upgraded first
to KDE 2.2 and then to 2.2.1. I believe you should install KDE Base 
first. In any case, suggestions
for the order of installation are given on the KDE website. When you try 
to install it, if you
start with the right package, you will find nothing that it needs, but 
that some of the files
are in conflict with the previous KDE installation. The solution is to 
install with --force, and
then to immediately afterwards remove the conflicting package with rpm 
-e. You don't need
to use --nodeps, which would probably get you into trouble.

Anyway, this solution worked well for me: 1) install in the right order, 
2) use --force, 3) remove the old.

Best Regards,
:-)Bernie