I have downloaded the required KDE files (version 3.4.2)(I know what all files are required), and tried to simply upgrade using the rpm -Uvh command. But i began getting dependency problems. Now, what I did was searched google like a mad buffalo :P to find that missing files, and was successful to a great extent. But the weird thing was I got a few conflicts, which I can't around with. Please guide me what needs to be done.
Here is the excerpt from the failure of dependency list . (the following are just the conflicts that are at fault. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- kdeaddons < 0:3.3.90 conflicts with kdelibs-3.4.2-1.1.el4.kde.i386 kdeartwork < 0:3.3.90 conflicts with kdelibs-3.4.2-1.1.el4.kde.i386 kdebase < 6:3.3.90 conflicts with kdelibs-3.4.2-1.1.el4.kde.i386
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Hope you can help.
duffmckagan wrote:
I have downloaded the required KDE files (version 3.4.2)(I know what all files are required), and tried to simply upgrade using the rpm -Uvh command. But i began getting dependency problems. Now, what I did was searched google like a mad buffalo :P to find that missing files, and was successful to a great extent. But the weird thing was I got a few conflicts, which I can't around with. Please guide me what needs to be done.
Here is the excerpt from the failure of dependency list . (the following are just the conflicts that are at fault.
kdeaddons < 0:3.3.90 conflicts with kdelibs-3.4.2-1.1.el4.kde.i386 kdeartwork < 0:3.3.90 conflicts with kdelibs-3.4.2-1.1.el4.kde.i386 kdebase < 6:3.3.90 conflicts with kdelibs-3.4.2-1.1.el4.kde.i386
Hope you can help.
1. Use apt or yum. It's easier, really. 2. The conflicts lines are pretty self-explanatory (IMO). You need to also upgrade kdeaddons kdeartwork kdebase (at the same time) if you're going to manually try to upgrade kdelibs. You can alternatively, rpm -e kdeaddons kdeartwork kdebase to avoid the conflict, and the install/upgrade them later.
-- Rex
- Use apt or yum. It's easier, really.
Well I have good experience with Apt-get.
I have absolutely no idea about YUM. Can you point me to some tutorials which can help me learn them?
- The conflicts lines are pretty self-explanatory (IMO). You need to
also upgrade kdeaddons kdeartwork kdebase (at the same time) if you're going to manually try to upgrade kdelibs. You can alternatively, rpm -e kdeaddons kdeartwork kdebase to avoid the conflict, and the install/upgrade them later.
LOL that is a wonderful Idea. I wonder why did it not come to my mind Pretty cool and time to try it. Thanks a lot. I will post back with the results soon.
duffmckagan wrote:
- Use apt or yum. It's easier, really.
Well I have good experience with Apt-get.
I have absolutely no idea about YUM. Can you point me to some tutorials which can help me learn them?
apt and yum are pretty much the same functionality. With yum, you can skip apt's 'apt-get update' step, and
apt-get install foo => yum install foo apt-get upgrade => yum upgrade
-- Rex
On 8/7/05, Rex Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu wrote:
apt and yum are pretty much the same functionality. With yum, you can skip apt's 'apt-get update' step, and
apt-get install foo => yum install foo apt-get upgrade => yum upgrade
-- Rex
After going through a lot of headache of solving dependencies and conflicts manually, I finally got KDE 3.4 working. And wow......it looks good. Still I have to install a lot of additional stuff, and again there are so many dependencies.
Well, seems like I will learn YUM soon.
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On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 06:33 +0000, duffmckagan wrote:
On 8/7/05, Rex Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu wrote:
apt and yum are pretty much the same functionality. With yum, you can skip apt's 'apt-get update' step, and
apt-get install foo => yum install foo apt-get upgrade => yum upgrade
-- Rex
After going through a lot of headache of solving dependencies and conflicts manually, I finally got KDE 3.4 working. And wow......it looks good. Still I have to install a lot of additional stuff, and again there are so many dependencies.
It is your computer and you can do what you want :)
But, there are so many dependency changes and so many replacement files, including many things that are not KDE, that I would not recommend upgrading to either KDE 3.4 (or Gnome 2.10 for that matter) to a normal user. This is especially true if you want the stability of an enterprise OS.
Not to say that those are not both great Display systems (they both offer good things) ... but they might make some packages, compiled against the older versions of either, not work correctly.
Again, I am not trying to tel people what to do, just point out that once you make an upgrade as drastic as that (upgrading KDE or Gnome) to CentOS-4, it is not really CentOS-4 anymore ... but more like Fedora Core again.
Not that there is anything bad about Fedora Core ... it is just not CentOS :)
On 8/8/05, Johnny Hughes mailing-lists@hughesjr.com wrote:
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 06:33 +0000, duffmckagan wrote:
On 8/7/05, Rex Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu wrote:
apt and yum are pretty much the same functionality. With yum, you can skip apt's 'apt-get update' step, and
apt-get install foo => yum install foo apt-get upgrade => yum upgrade
-- Rex
After going through a lot of headache of solving dependencies and conflicts manually, I finally got KDE 3.4 working. And wow......it looks good. Still I have to install a lot of additional stuff, and again there are so many dependencies.
It is your computer and you can do what you want :)
But, there are so many dependency changes and so many replacement files, including many things that are not KDE, that I would not recommend upgrading to either KDE 3.4 (or Gnome 2.10 for that matter) to a normal user. This is especially true if you want the stability of an enterprise OS.
Not to say that those are not both great Display systems (they both offer good things) ... but they might make some packages, compiled against the older versions of either, not work correctly.
Again, I am not trying to tel people what to do, just point out that once you make an upgrade as drastic as that (upgrading KDE or Gnome) to CentOS-4, it is not really CentOS-4 anymore ... but more like Fedora Core again.
Not that there is anything bad about Fedora Core ... it is just not CentOS :)
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You are absolutely right. But I am kinda learning things. Like upgrading and stuff like that. Moreover, I will learn more and more things, by doing such things (That is what I feel.)
I simply want to learn things. But yes, again, that was well put, and you proved your point.
But I am using Cent OS.....because I like Red Hat. Simply not Fedora Core, cuz it is not for me. I have had bad experiences with it.
But I will try it soon.(If this comes to my mind ;-) ) Moreover, the thing is, I am hooked onto Red Hat Systems. They have brought me into the Linux world, and I want to master it .
On Monday 08 August 2005 06:58, Johnny Hughes wrote:
But, there are so many dependency changes and so many replacement files, including many things that are not KDE, that I would not recommend upgrading to either KDE 3.4 (or Gnome 2.10 for that matter) to a normal user. This is especially true if you want the stability of an enterprise OS.
I use the kde-redhat repo for EL4 on my CentOS machines. See kde-redhat.sourceforge.net for more information. I then add the kde-redhat repo to both yum and apt sections (apt so that I can get synaptic for nice gui installs), and it just works. Yes, there are a lot of things changed in the upgrade, but in my case I really have no alternative, since I need the KDE 3.4 kstars for here. Much of the core system is not touched by the upgrade; core meaning glibc and kernel, and associated non-GUI things. As I don't use GNOME at all, the stuff changed there for KDE 3.4 to work doesn't bother me.
The KDE 3.4 repo is an alternative repo, for sure, and replaces things, for sure, and, if I were running real RHEL4 might cause support issues, sure, but when I basically have an unsupported OS anyway with CentOS I can deal with the little bit of extra things I may need to deal with by using third-party repos like KDE-Redhat.
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