RPM --- gotta love it :)

Tom Veldhouse
veldy at veldy.net

On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Robert P. Goldman wrote:

>
> I was wondering if any of you have tried using the latest KDE,
> particularly using RPMs.
>
> I have a RedHat 6.2 system at home, which came with KDE 1.1.  OK, I
> tried to just freshen everything to install 2.01.  That didn't work.
> Seems like the RPM packaging changed pretty substantially between
> versions.
>
> OK, so I painstakingly scraped the 1.1 RPMs off my system and
> installed the 2.01 RPMs.  Everything was hunky-dory, and KDE seems
> really good in the new version.
>
> So, I was psyched to install 2.1.  But... ARGH!  As far as I can tell,
> the RPM packaging has changed AGAIN!  Freshening doesn't work ---
> there seem to be lots of files in the old kde-sound that have been
> moved to the arts package, causing all kinds of havoc with the
> dependencies.
>
> Anyone else had these problems?  Anyone fixed them?
>
> Thanks!
> R
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