Kde3 install problems

[Tom Achtenberg]

Here is what I ended up doing that finally worked.

First I had to uninstall all the KDE anything 2.2.2  I used the following commands:
rpm -e `rpm -qa |egrep ^koffice`
rpm -e `rpm -qa |egrep ^kpppload`
rpm -e `rpm -qa |egrep ^kdbg`
rpm -e `rpm -qa |egrep ^licq-kde`
rpm -e `rpm -qa |egrep ^kde`
rpm -e `rpm -qa |egrep ^ntsysv`
rpm -e `rpm -qa |egrep ^switchdesk-kde`
rpm -e `rpm -qa |egrep ^firewall-config`
rpm -e `rpm -qa |egrep ^chromium`

Next I had to remove the following rpm's from the install directory: gphoto kamera usbutils and hwdata

Now I was finally able to install the upgrade using rpm -Uvh *.rpm

It seems to be working.  I have been able to configure Kmail to send with smtp authentication!


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Aric C. Wilisch 
  To: kde at mail.kde.org 
  Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 3:43 PM
  Subject: [kde] Kde3 install problems


  I'm sure this has been beat to death already, but I just joined so I don't know the answer yet ;).

  I downloaded the binaries for KDE3 for Red Hat 7.2 and tried the instructions and they didn't work. the instructions were:

   cd /where/you/downloaded/the/KDE3/RPMS
   rpm -e `rpm -qa |egrep ^kde`
   rpm -Uvh *rpm

  Whenever I do the first rpm command it comes back with about 2 pages of other packages that are dependancies therefore it doesn't remove the old installation. 

  Any help on how to remove the old installation and install kde3 would  be appreciated. if I have to i'll reinstall RH7.2 without kde installed and install it fresh, but I'm afraid that I'll lose some functionality.

  Lookin forward to hearing from people

  Aric
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