ffi Posted April 9, 2006 Report Share Posted April 9, 2006 (edited) Yesterday I tried installing KDE 3.5.2 from MDE but that didn´t go very well. I´m left with a working Mandriva version of 3.5.1 of KDE but my Xorg somehow ¨updated¨ to mde. Now I can´t select packages anymore because packages seem to depend on older versions of xorg. But I can´t seem to go back because of this error without seemingly uninstalling just about everything. Edited April 9, 2006 by ffi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted April 9, 2006 Report Share Posted April 9, 2006 Under fedora, you have to download the old X package and then launch a rpm -Uvh --allfiles --oldpackage --replacefiles --replacepkgs --repackage *.rpm with the new package for Xorg. I don't know if it will work in Mandriva, too, but maybe it will. Maybe someone else knows some trick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted April 9, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2006 I tried for all the packages which had mde in their name and everything seems okay, I rebooted and I´m back in KDE and even GLX seems to be working.... urpmi --allow-force --allow-nodeps XXXX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted April 14, 2006 Report Share Posted April 14, 2006 Once I had to downgrade XOrg, and I couldn't do it with urpmi. However, doing it with Smart worked fine. Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted April 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 14, 2006 I downloaded smart, it looks a bit like synaptic but still needs a lot of work in th GUI bit. Is it better (safer) than URPMI? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted April 18, 2006 Report Share Posted April 18, 2006 As I see it, Smart is more versatile than urpmi, but I prefer urpmi for the presentation and the speed. Both do the job (the same job, BTW) fine. Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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