kfoss Posted July 4, 2003 Report Share Posted July 4, 2003 I've just finished upgrading my KDE 3.0.3 to KDE 3.1.1a by doing a compilation install. I have tried numerous times in the past to upgrade my KDE 3.0.x to 3.1.x but have never been successful due to missing dependencies. I find it funny that the whenever I've looked for KDE 3.1 RPMs for MDK 9.0, that I can never install them. There is always a circle of missing RPMs which is different than the Out-of-the-Box 9.0. This shouldn't be if I understand. Anyways, I got fed up and used the KDE 3.1.1a source files from the latest Linux Format DVD and compiled and installed them. Now that I have KDE 3.1.x running, I would like to clean up my drive a bit by removing some of the old KDE 3.0.3 files. However, I just can't remove the files without another circle of dependencies being broken. Does anyone have any ideas about removing the old KDE 3.0.3 files without leaving a huge hole in the RPM structure from just deleting the files. BTW, I can't upgrade to MDK 9.1 as it does not allow the use of my ATI All-in-Wonder card. The GCC 3.x compilers still have issues which cause problems with the drivers done for 2.9x compilers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted July 5, 2003 Report Share Posted July 5, 2003 When we upgraded from KDE2.2.2 to KDE3 we ran into a lot of the same issues. Although some people were succesful the general consensus was that it was better to leave them alone. If you're interested you can do a search on the old boad and will come up with numerous topics on this subject. http://www.mandrakeuser.org/mub/ HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyslexic Posted July 7, 2003 Report Share Posted July 7, 2003 I hope you don't consider this response to be a troll reply, but... Texstar's KDE 3.1 packages worked just fine for me, and most others as far as I know. I have the main distribution, contrib, plf, and Texstar added to my urpmi sources, so I didn't really notices what dependency issues there might be. The 9.0 packages aren't on his mirrors anymore, but someone here may still have them. I realize you just went through a compilation... I'm currently using an ATI AIW Rage 128 Pro on Mandrake 9.1. I didn't do anything special to get it working. There are some minor quirks with the TV tuner, but that's related XF86 4.3. I experienced the same quirks with XF86 4.3 under Mandrake 9.0, and eventually went back to XF86 4.2.1. When Mandrake 9.1 was released, I managed to find some work-arounds for the TV-tuner issues. The only thing that I couldn't get working (and I didn't really try) is DRI. I could never get DRI working under Mandrake 8.x or 9.0 with the AIW R128 Pro. Since I have seen other Rage 128 cards work with DRI out of the box, I assume the problem is with my motherboard/chipset. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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