Re: Preparing for KDE2


Subject: Re: Preparing for KDE2
From: Hollis R Blanchard (hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 16 2001 - 11:03:21 MST


On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Tony Yazbeck wrote:
>
> I also successfully removed (using the rpm -e command) everything except the
> following:
>
> - kdebase-1.1.2-30 (this is the error I got)
>
> kdebase is needed by autorun 2.61-1
> kdebase is needed by kdebase-lowcolor-icons-1.1.2-30
> kdebase is needed by kdpms-0.2.8-1 (I removed that later, so I think this error
> so be gone now)
>
> - kdemultimedia-1.1.2-6
>
> kdebase is needed by autorun 2.61-1
>
> Shall I go ahead and remove the programs that are not allowing me to remove
> those files you mention or will that cause a problem?

rpm -e kdebase autorun kdebase-lowcolor-icons

> After I successfully manager to remove the above, this is how I intend to
> install the rpms at once for KDE. Please tell me if this is correct as Im not
> sure.
>
> 1) Open terminal, this will put me in root

You will not be root unless you su (man su) to root.

> 2) Type: CD KDE2 (since that's the folder I created in root and contains all
> the KDE 2.01 files)

Try 'cd'; 'CD' won't get you anything except an error.

> 3) Type: rpm -ivh *.rpm

Actually, make that rpm -Uvh (man rpm to find out why).

-Hollis



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