Re: Linux Dependency Hell. (KDE 3.4 DISASTER) --> Proper Procedure.

From: AnonymousFC3 (no_at_em.niet)
Date: 03/27/05 

Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 19:01:09 -0800

Kristine:
  your problem is very common: it is mostly lack of decent documentation, to
upgrade KDE. I guess that SUSE/NOVELL could have gotten involved and
written a decent automated procedure for update.

It seems that the release of 9.3 was an incentive to do not much, and focus
on 9.3 for who wnats KDE 3.4... and wait KDE 4.0 scheduled for summer!

After all Microsoft have also been playing the upgrade trade mill!
A few years ago, I had to update a very good NT to get USB... and the
Windows 2000 was really not that great! So MS does shine there either...
and after the upgrade it took me forever to get everything up and
running... and 2 huge service packs!
So compared to Windows Suse Linux does quite well... and at least you do not
have to fork $100+ to get new drivers!

By the way, I did update successfully to KDE3.4 using YAst2, and it works
fine. (But I see little immediat benefits... and a few new bugs!).

I did this in YAST2:
1) Change source of installation:
Added one line:

Status is ON
Name is (does not matter).

the URL is: ftp://ftp.gwdg.de
The path
is: /pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for9.2/yast-source

2) run "system Update".
It will take a while (~ 200MG to transfer from a busu server!), but it
should work!

At this time you may try it, I doubt you system will be worse than it is!
Good luck.

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Rick wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 14:04:34 -0800, Kristine Coxx wrote:
>
>> This is what happens when you upgrade to kde 3.4 right from the official
>> Suse ftp site and using Yast to do it!!
>>
>> #### YaST2 conflicts list - generated 2005-03-26 16:56:13 ####
>>
> (long list snipped)
>>
>> #### YaST2 conflicts list END ###
>> And the Linux retards make fun of DLL hell?
> I've never seen a Linux retard. Might you be looking into a mirror?
>> I figure in a week or so I might have this all sorted out.
> Why?
>> Kristine Coxx
> Again... negative troll points awarded.

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