Installing KDE 2.2 On Mandrake 8

[KarlOldman]

On http://ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/kde//stable/2.2/Mandrake/8.0/ I Have Mandrake 8 so I click on it, which one do I download after that? And then how do I Install it? help!

Thanks,
Karl.

[bdg1983]

idealego post this about Mandrake 8 and KDE 2.2 (http://www.linuxnewbie.org/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=022002)

There is no longer a kdesupport.
http://www.kde.org/documentation/faq/install.html

Didn't take too long to find this at kde. Much easier than what I did. I recompiled most of the src.rpm's and then had to reinstall kdelibs and kdebase to fix some major problems. All is well now and am enjoying 2.2. Lots of nice new apps and configuration options.

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# KDE 2.2 for Linux-Mandrake
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Available packages
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KDE 2.2 for Linux-Mandrake is currently available for:

- i586: see 7.2/ and 8.0/ directory.
- 8.0 ppc: see 8.0/ppc/ directory. Please remember that 8.0 ppc is a beta
version.

Sources are available in SRPMS/ directory. You don't need them if you don't wishto rebuild KDE packages.


How install these packages?
===========================

First, download packages you need.

To install your packages, please use urpmi.

As root:

- add a new media. Run:
urpmi.addmedia a-name file://directory-where-are-stored-packages

- install packages you need using:
urpmi name-of-package

For example, to install gnupg, run:
urpmi gnupg

Dependencies will be automatically resolved.

OR

- automatically update your system using:
urpmi --auto-select