KDE 2.2.1 installation

[subnet_rx]

I'm looking for the best way to install this with Red Hat rpm's. An install script would be great, but I can't seem to find one. I've downloaded all the packages needed.

[Dark Ninja]

As far as I've seen, you have to install each package. It's a pain, I know, but...yeah...what are you going to do. (You COULD write a script to do everything - even download the files needed - and then put it out on the Linux community. That would be much appreciated.)


Dark Ninja

[subnet_rx]

well, so far, it's failing to find some required lib files, which I can't seem to track down

[bdg1983]

The KDE 2.2.1 rpms need to be installed in a certain order. It also depends on the distro and the rpms that are provided.

i.e. for Caldera's Workstation 3.1, this is the readme for KDE 2.2 or KDE 2.2.1

These are the KDE 2.2 packages for Caldera OpenLinux 3.1. You have to install at least the Qt,
support and KDE libraries and the base applications:

rpm -U qt2/*
rpm -i libxmlkde/*
rpm -i pcre/*
rpm -U kdelibs/* kdebase/*

For the other kde modules there are individual packages for all applications. Some application might
require an additional library. rpm will tell you, which library this is. You will find it in the
same subdirectory as the application. For example to install kmail you also need to install
libkdenetwork and libmimelib:

cd kdenetwork
rpm -U kmail-2.2-1.i386.rpm libkdenetwork-2.2-1.i386.rpm libmimelib-*


If Redhat does not have qt2, libxmlkde or pcre, then I would think kdelibs would need to be installed first and then kdebase. The rest should not matter what order they are installed in.

[subnet_rx]

kdelibs is what I'm installing first. Someone said I should do it with -nodeps but I'm not sure about that.

[Malakin]

For KDE 2.2 (not 2.2.1) on mandrake 8.0 I just threw all the rpms into one directory and did a "rpm *rpm -U", only thing it complained about was pcre so I installed pcre, did another "rpm *rpm -U" and then it worked fine.

[subnet_rx]

thanks, I'll try that. I have them all in a directory

[drashkeev]

Do you have an EXTREMELY fast connection? If so, go $ ftp ftp.kde.org:/pub/kde/stable/[path to your ditro]/

ftp>lcd [dir you are downloading to]
ftp>mget *.rpm
ftp>bye
# rpm -Uvh *.rpm

If you do this, make sure that a) the directory on the ftp server has the files you need and b) when using the -U switch, you actualy have the packs installed. It fails otherwise. You may want to use --force . However, --nodeps usually is bad. you want to know which packs are missing on your system. Get them from www.rpmfind.net (http://www.rpmfind.net)