KDE 3.2 on Fedora with RPMs (newb)

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russinit

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Wednesday, February 4th 2004, 8:21pm

KDE 3.2 on Fedora with RPMs (newb)

I have all the RPMs for KDE 3.2 but everytime I try to install, it keeps asking for the requirement of QT.

How on earth do I install with these RPMs?

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reks

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Wednesday, February 4th 2004, 8:50pm

Please give more details... Do you have qt-3.2.x rpms? How did you try the install and what were the error messages, etc.

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russinit

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Wednesday, February 4th 2004, 9:15pm

I have QT but the older version - it wouldn't let me upgrade that. I assume QT is installed by Fedora by default when you select KDE, right?

I tried running rpm -iv *.rpm from within the directory where the RPMs are. I kept saying that some RPM items conflicted so I just took those three out of the directory.

Then I just used the -Fv instead of the -iv switch and it processed the RPMs.

It seems to have upgraded but now when KDE boots it hangs at the "Initializing Perferials".

I know that's alot - any thoughts?

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reks

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Wednesday, February 4th 2004, 9:28pm

Well.. I dont use fedora, so dont know which version of qt comes with it. Anywayz, when you download kde, get all the files in the respective directory. Things like qt, kdelibs, kdecore, kdebase, etc. are absolutely necessary.

After downloading all that, do an rpm -Uv *.rpm instead of rpm -iv. That "U" is to upgrade packages. "rpm --help" for details.

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russinit

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Wednesday, February 4th 2004, 9:39pm

Thanks - I will give that a shot.

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russinit

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Thursday, February 5th 2004, 1:49pm

KDE 3.2 is working on Fedora (my first great Linux "I did it!" moment since switching). With a little reading on rpms, I just had to install of the dependencies (duh on my part).

My goodness it feels good to be using my brain again (and not just setup.exe, click next, click next, click next, click Finish)

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reks

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Thursday, February 5th 2004, 9:17pm

Congratulations! Now you've got world's most advanced desktop

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