I actually used to mirror their RPM's to my system occasionally, but
I've since removed the script, but it should be easily recreatable by
anyone familiar with wget.
Benjamin Sher wrote:
> Dear friends:
> Well, looks like I was wrong again. But this time it's a pleasant surprise.
> Let's go back to the KDE 2.1.1 upgrade for LM72 site from Texstar at:
> http://texstar.dyn.dhs.org
> This site has i586 rpms for LM72 that will allow you to upgrade your current
> KDE to the final version 2.1.1
>
> I just sucessfully upgraded my KDE 2.1 to KDE 2.1.1 using the instructions
> and files at Texstar. See my instructions and explanation below.
>
> All of these i586 rpms (just issued on April 7) have been built from the
> Cooker site and made available on LM72 (i.e. using our version 3.0 rpm
> instead of the version 4 rpm required for Cooker's i586 rpms.
>
> Another big news item: The new Mozilla 0.8.1 files have also just been made
> available as i586 rpms for LM72.
>
> But please remember: these are UNsupported rpms. They are NOT officially
> supported by Mandrake.
>
> INSTRUCTIONS:
>
> I'll take the blame for my share of the responsiblity for misleading
> everybody earlier (not once but twice) but the author of Texstar should take
> his share of the blame, too.
>
> When you arrive at Texstar, AVOID any links on the main screen (FTP or HTTP
> links, etc.). That was my mistake earlier. This is NOT the entrance to the
> KDE 2.1.1 files.
>
> Instead, look at the top left corner of the screen. You will see a penguin
> (that is NOT a link but should be one). Right below it you will find the link
> you want: Pclinuxonline. As you can see, it is underlined. Click on it.
>
> Now look for the section pertaining to KDE 2.1.1 for LM72.
>
> First, download the two freetype2 files
>
> freetype2-2.0.2-1mdk.i586.rpm freetype2-devel-2.0.2-1mdk.i586.rpm
>
> and install them first. Then create a KDE-2.1.1 directory and download all
> the files INDIVIDUALLY. I don't think there is any other way. Here is what my
> directory looks like. I call it KDE-FINAL:
>
> [sher@sher07 sher]$ cd KDE-FINAL
> [sher@sher07 KDE-FINAL]$ ls
> XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
> XFree86-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
> XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
> XFree86-Xnest-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
> XFree86-Xvfb-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
> XFree86-cyrillic-fonts-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
> XFree86-devel-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
> XFree86-doc-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
> XFree86-glide-module-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
> XFree86-libs-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
> XFree86-server-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
> XFree86-static-libs-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
> XFree86-xfs-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
> arts-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
> kdeadmin-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
> kdebase-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
> kdebase-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
> kdebase-devel-static-libraries-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
> kdebase-nsplugins-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
> kdegames-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
> kdegames-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
> kdegraphics-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
> kdegraphics-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
> kdelibs-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
> kdelibs-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
> kdelibs-devel-static-libraries-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
> kdelibs-sound-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
> kdelibs-sound-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
> kdemultimedia-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
> kdemultimedia-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
> kdenetwork-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
> kdenetwork-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
> kdepim-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
> kdepim-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
> kdesdk-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
> kdesdk-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
> kdesupport-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
> kdesupport-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
> kdetoys-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
> kdetoys-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
> kdeutils-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
> kdeutils-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
> kdevelop-1.4.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
> kdoc-2.1.1-1mdk.noarch.rpm
> koffice-2.0.1-7mdk.i586.rpm
> koffice-devel-2.0.1-7mdk.i586.rpm
> libarts2-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
> libarts2-devel-2.1.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
> libqt2-2.3.0-2mdk.i586.rpm
> libqt2-devel-2.3.0-2mdk.i586.rpm
> qt2-Xt-2.3.0-2mdk.i586.rpm
> qt2-designer-2.3.0-2mdk.i586.rpm
> qt2-static-libraries-2.3.0-2mdk.i586.rpm
> [sher@sher07 KDE-FINAL]$
>
> Now, after installing the 2freetype2 files, install the KDE files (all 53 of
> them, 120.1 meg) as follows:
>
> #rpm -Uvh --nodeps --replacefiles *.rpm
>
> When I first did an rpm -Uvh *.rpm I got an error message telling me that
> there was one failed dependency, namely, that kdesu was not installed. That's
> not true because kdesu is included in kde-base (and is not available
> separately in LM72). So, there are NO failed dependencies. But some files in
> KDE2.1.1 must replace certain files in earlier versions of KDE 2 (you must
> first install KDE 2.0 or KDE 2.01 in order to upgrade to KDE 2.1.1.
>
> Installation was a success. All 53 files returned 50 hashes each. There was
> one error message about a certain font but it said: "skipping." so I am sure
> everything installed OK.
> After installation, exit KDE, then in the console do a:
> #rpm --rebuilddb (rebuilding the database)
> and
> #update-menus -v
> Then reboot and you've got KDE 2.1.1. You can check the Control Center to see
> the new version number.
> My thanks to everyone who helped. Hope I have been of help to others,
> especially to other newbies like myself.
> Benjamin
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