KDE 2 How do you install this?

[antonymm]

I have downloaded all the rpms from the kde ftp site. But when I try to upgrade the packages they complain about dependencies and dont upgrade? Is there an order in which to upgrade, do you rpm -U kdesupport-2.0-1.i386.rpm first? are there any upgrade guides out there ????

Thanks

[MADHATter7]

What distribution are you running ? I' ll explain what I had to do:
1. Download all the files, including libmng & qt files.
2. Update the qt & libmng files. (rpm -U)
3. Remove all KDE packages. (Start w/ rpm -e kdesupport) This will list all packages that depend on this package. Then rpm -e all of them.
4. I repeated step 3 above (switching names of packages, i.e. rpm -e kdelibs & etc) untill all packages were removed.
5. Then I installed kdesupport. (rpm -U)
6. Next comes kdelibs. (rpm -U)
7. Follow up with kdebase. (rpm -U)
8. All other packages I installed in alpha order. (rpm -U) The website says after kdebase, the order doesn't matter.
9. Then I had to fire up Helix Gnome and login as root & edit gdm.conf w/ a text editor. I changed the line that pointed to the kde directory to read "startkde".
10. Then I rebooted the machine, chose KDE from the sessions menu of gdm, logged in and starting using KDE2.
WARNING: As you can tell, this method COMPLETELY remove KDE1 !! (It's the oly way I could get KDE2 to install) Therefore, use caution.
Maybe someone else knows an eaiser way that is much less complicated, but I SURE DON'T. -)

[This message has been edited by MADHATter7 (edited 24 October 2000).]

[TheGimp]

http://www.kde.org/documentation/faq/kdefaq.html should tell you everything you need to know to install KDE 2.0

You should install qt first then kdelibs and kdesupport. I don't think it matters what order the rest are installed :]

[kp]

when I try to install kde2 my machine says thast this variety of rpm only deals with numbers <==3 this happens if I try to do it from the consul/command line or the package manager. Any ideas anyone? ;-)}

peerless@qcislands.net

[TheGimp]

wrong rpms maybe?

[antonymm]

I have had a similar problem the fix was to upgrade the version of rpm that I was using, the problem occurs I think because the rpm package you are trying to install has been created by a newer version of rpm. Worth a try it worked for me....;-)
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Originally posted by kp:
when I try to install kde2 my machine says thast this variety of rpm only deals with numbers <==3 this happens if I try to do it from the consul/command line or the package manager. Any ideas anyone? ;-)}


peerless@qcislands.net

[antonymm]

I have had a similar problem the fix was to upgrade the version of rpm that I was using, the problem occurs I think because the rpm package you are trying to install has been created by a newer version of rpm. Worth a try it worked for me....;-)
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Originally posted by kp:
when I try to install kde2 my machine says thast this variety of rpm only deals with numbers <==3 this happens if I try to do it from the consul/command line or the package manager. Any ideas anyone? ;-)}


peerless@qcislands.net

[kp]

Jeez. Now I got qt installed mozilla and opera quit working. Reinstallation doesn't do dick. Also when I try to install kdelibs I get a 'needs libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2)' message. Why is it always so bloody hard to do something simple with this elegant os? I can't find glib-2.2 anywhere. Any hints out there? { :=(}

[icEninE]

ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v1.2/

Latest version is 1.2.8, there is no 2.2 versoin.

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-icE ninE

[patricklee]

I am using RedHat 7.0 and I was having a problem in getting the file libmng when install the kde2 package. Could someone please tell me what is this libmng since I could not found it in the kde ftp or Redhat distribution. Thanks

[SubPar]

http://www.libmng.com/

[Honcho]

I also have redhat 7.0 and when I go to install I have a number of dependancies, but if I do a locate on them I find them all in /usr/lib . What is going on here? One of the files is libuulib.so.5 amoung others that are simular to this.