Re: KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-11 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote about "Re: KDE 3.0 Instelation": > 7.0 begat "7.0" respin and about 80meg of updates. 7.1 needed about the > same. At last count my 7.2 system needed almost 150 meg of updates, not > counting GCC 3, which I installe

Re: KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-11 Thread Shaul Karl
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2002, Dvir Volk wrote about "RE: KDE 3.0 Instelation": > > i mean, the way i see it - kde is all about bringing ease of use to > > Linux. and it does that, but just AFTER you install it. > > > > for, let's say, an advanced newbie, upgra

Re: KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-11 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Nadav Har'El wrote: > Newbies should not care about upgrading individual packages. They would > just get the latest distribution (e.g., Redhat is released every 6 months) > and install/upgrade it. Upgrading redhat is an almost trivial operation: > you still the CD-ROM in, choose "upgrade", and it

Re: KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-11 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002, Dvir Volk wrote about "RE: KDE 3.0 Instelation": > i mean, the way i see it - kde is all about bringing ease of use to > Linux. and it does that, but just AFTER you install it. > > for, let's say, an advanced newbie, upgrading will be poss

RE: KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Dvir Volk wrote: > > I liked the zillion packages. You see, sometimes I jsut want > > one component, > > not the entire warehouse. > > I didn't say that there shouldn't be seperate packages, of course that > IS GOOD. > but you i would also like to see a bundled package withal

Re: KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-10 Thread Arie Folger
On Wednesday 10 April 2002 18:43, Dvir Volk wrote: > I didn't say that there shouldn't be seperate packages, of course that > IS GOOD. > but you i would also like to see a bundled package with all the > necessary files and libs inside. agreed. Linux is among others about choice. > maybe there sh

RE: KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-10 Thread Dvir Volk
> I liked the zillion packages. You see, sometimes I jsut want > one component, > not the entire warehouse. I didn't say that there shouldn't be seperate packages, of course that IS GOOD. but you i would also like to see a bundled package with all the necessary files and libs inside. i mean,

Re: KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-10 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002, Dvir Volk wrote about "RE: KDE 3.0 Instelation": > which kinda makes you wonder: why isn't there just one big package for > each distro, with all the needed dependecies (qt, libxml, openssh and > such), and seperate packages for the "extra&qu

Re: KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-10 Thread Arie Folger
On Wednesday 10 April 2002 15:19, you wrote: > which kinda makes you wonder: why isn't there just one big package for > each distro, with all the needed dependecies (qt, libxml, openssh and > such), and seperate packages for the "extra" stuff such as devel > packages, koffice and maybe kdevelop? >

RE: KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Dvir Volk wrote: > which kinda makes you wonder: why isn't there just one big package for > each distro, with all the needed dependecies (qt, libxml, openssh and > such), and seperate packages for the "extra" stuff such as devel > packages, koffice and maybe kdevelop? > > i m

RE: KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-10 Thread Dvir Volk
> To: Tzafrir Cohen > Cc: linux ILUG > Subject: Re: KDE 3.0 Instelation > > > On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > Except ... > > Except nothing. Everything worked. > > > RPM's dependencies should have verified such silly stuff > for

Re: KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-10 Thread Ben-Nes Michael
Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Hetz Ben Hamo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Ben-Nes Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "linux ILUG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 4:23 PM Subject: Re: KDE 3.0 Instelation > On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Hetz

Re: KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-10 Thread Ariel Biener
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > Except ... Except nothing. Everything worked. > RPM's dependencies should have verified such silly stuff for you, right? Sure, but I used --nodeps --Ariel -- Ariel Biener e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP(6.5.8) public key http://www.tau.ac.il/~ariel/p

Re: KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Ariel Biener wrote: > I just did: > > cd /usr/local/src > mkdir kde3 > cd kde3 > ftp ftp.sunet.se > login as anonymous > cd "/pub/kde/stable/latest/Red Hat/i386" > bin > prompt > mget *.rpm > quit > > then, rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force *.rpm Just out of curiosity: what happens

Re: KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-10 Thread Ariel Biener
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Ben-Nes Michael wrote: I just did: cd /usr/local/src mkdir kde3 cd kde3 ftp ftp.sunet.se login as anonymous cd "/pub/kde/stable/latest/Red Hat/i386" bin prompt mget *.rpm quit then, rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force *.rpm After that, worked like a charm. Make sure you have openss

Re: KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > rpm -e `rpm -qa | grep kde` --nodeps You left out the '^' > rpm -Uvh *rpm --nodeps --force... > > worked perfect here ;) 'rm -rf /' will work fine next time you try it givenm you are root) What if you have a package called 'hookdesktop' ? It will be

Re: KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-10 Thread Ben-Nes Michael
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2002, Ben-Nes Michael wrote about "KDE 3.0 Instelation": > > I fallowed KDE instruction of how to install the new KDE and obviously it > > didn't work. > > all the dependencies are ruined and now I need to guess what lib belong to > > wh

Re: KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-10 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
rpm -e `rpm -qa | grep kde` --nodeps rpm -Uvh *rpm --nodeps --force... worked perfect here ;) Hetz On Wednesday 10 April 2002 03:08 pm, Ben-Nes Michael wrote: > Damn > > I fallowed KDE instruction of how to install the new KDE and obviously it > didn't work. > all the dependencies are ruined an

Re: KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-10 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002, Ben-Nes Michael wrote about "KDE 3.0 Instelation": > I fallowed KDE instruction of how to install the new KDE and obviously it > didn't work. > all the dependencies are ruined and now I need to guess what lib belong to > what package. > >

KDE 3.0 Instelation

2002-04-10 Thread Ben-Nes Michael
Damn I fallowed KDE instruction of how to install the new KDE and obviously it didn't work. all the dependencies are ruined and now I need to guess what lib belong to what package. I think its shame that they put such instruction that don't work :( Here is a snip -> -