HOWTO for updating to KDE-3 on RedHat 7.2

Sun Apr 14 11:11:32 BST 2002

This worked perfectly for me with 2 minor adaptations I logged in to gnome as 
root and used gnome rpm to uninstall kde 2

On Sunday 07 April 2002 09:13 pm, Duncan Haldane wrote:
> Hi,
> with all the feedback from this list, I updated the HOWTO for
> updating KDE on RedHat 7.2,   I think all issues are now addressed.
> Sorry for the length, but its good to archive it on this list.
> Duncan
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> Updated HOWTO for upgrading Red Hat 7.2 to use KDE3.  v1.01
> 2002-04-07
>
> I. Introduction.
>
> Do NOT rely on these instructions for installing KDE-2 on Red Hat
> 7.1 or earlier.  This is only for Red Hat 7.2
>
> This is a major update, and is not an official Red Hat update.
> If you want to  be supported, wait for the next Red Hat release which
> will have KDE-3
>
> You can successfully update using the KDE-3 RedHat-7.2 rpms, which are
> available at kde.org mirrors,
>
> As of 2002/04/07, there are some "unexpected" issues to deal with:
> (i)   You need an updated libxslt rpm from rawhide, that
>       should have also been supplied at kde.org, but wasn't.
>       (maybe this will soon be remedied?)
> (ii)  the updated hwdata rpm conficts with Xconfigurator
>       from RH7.2.  This is not really a problem but can
>       be confusing.  It's only needed it you install hotplug
>       usb support for kamera and kooka (digital camera and
>       scanner frontends for gphoto and sane).
> (iii) If you need to support "legacy" kde2 applications not
>       yet ported to kde2, you will need to get and rebuild qt2 and
>       kde2-compat rpms from  rawhide.
>
> These problems may eventually get fixed in the kde.org RPMS..
> -------------------------------------
> 2.  Collecting the RPMS.
> Download the rpms from the kde.org mirror:
> They are in .../kde/stable/3.0/Red Hat/i386
>
> An updated libxslt-1.0.15 is needed to make kde3's help system work
> correctly. Until it gets added to the rpms at kde.org,
> go to a Red Hat "rawhide" mirror, like
>  http://mirrors.kernel.org/redhat/redhat/linux/rawhide/SRPMS/SRPMS
> and download libxslt-1.0.15-1.src.rpm
> You can also find qt2-*.src.rpm and kde2-compat*.src.rpm
> there, if it turns out you need legacy kde2 support.
>
> You should also first upgrade rpm to rpm-4.0.4-7x.
> This is a recent Official RedHat 7.2 update.   You may need
> to install other Official RedHat 7.2 updates as well.
>
> -------------------------------------
> 3. preparing to upgrade KDE.
>
> collect the kde.org rpms into an empty directory, then
> separate them into three groups, putting two of these into
> subdirectories:
>
> group (A): qt rpms
>
> mkdir qt_rpms
> mv qt*rpm qt_rpms
>
> group (B): kde rpms (except kooka, kamera, kdevelop,kdesdk)
>
> mkdir kde_rpms
> mv k*rpm kde_rpms
> mv [ar,ce,lisa,no]*rpm kde_rpms
> mv kde_rpms/[koo,kam,kdev,kdesdk]* .
>
> group (C): the rest (these  stay in the original directory)
> (includes kooka, kamera, kdevelop,kdesdk)
>
> If you are not planning on compiling kde applications, now move all
> *-devel* files from group (B) to group (C).
>
> mv kde_rpms/kde*devel*rpm .
>
> -------------------------------------
> 4. Installing the required non-kde RPMS
>
> First install, from group (C) in the top directory,
>
> rpm -Uvh chkconfig* cups* ntsysv* libxml2-2*
>
> Now go to the qt-rpms subdirectory:
>
> cd qt_rpms
> rpm -ivh qt-3.0.3-5.i386.rpm
> rpm -ivh qt-Xt-3.03-5,i386.rpm
>
> Note the "rpm -ivh" not "-Uvh".  This leaves the older qt-2.x
> libraries in place.  Some other applications may need them.
> Next, upgrade any other qt components you have installed:
>
> rpm -Fvh qt-d* qt-s*
>
> This will update qt-devel, qt-designer, qt-static, if they were
> previously installed.
>
> If you have database applications MySQL, ODBC, PostgreSQL installed,
> you may want the new qt add-ons that go with these.
>
> rpm -Uvh qt-MySQL*                 (optional)
> rpm -Uvh qt-ODBC*                  (optional)
> rpm -Uvh qt-PostgreSQL*            (optional)
>
> Don't worry if any of these fail.  It just means you don't have the
> correponding database application installed.
>
> If you plan to compile any kde applications, make sure qt-devel is
> installed rpm -Uvh qt-devel*
>
> This is a good time to install the updated libxslt library, although this
> could wait till after the installation is complete. If you don't have it,
> get its source rpm from a rawhide mirror, as described above.
>
> rpm --rebuild libxslt-1.0.15-1.src.rpm
> cp /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/libxslt*1.0.15-1* .
> rpm -Uvh libxslt-1*
>
> ----------------------------------------
> 5.  Installing the new kde RPMS
>
> Now exit kde2, shut down X, and remove the kde-2.2 rpms.
>
> From a console, if kdm is running, shut down X with
> telinit 3
>
> Make a list of currently installed kde-2.x rpms:
>
> rpm -qa | grep "^kde" | grep -v kde1 > list
>
> check the output file ("cat list") to make sure that nothing you want to
> keep is unexpectedly included.
>
> If the list is OK, try to remove the old kde-2 installation
>
> rpm -e $(<list)
>
> I got some "... is needed by ..." dependency complaints from other
> kde2 packages, and just (rpm -e)'d the packages that complained.
> till "rpm -e $(<list)" worked.   If the packages that are complaining
> are kde2 applications that are not part of  kde3, and you will still
> need them after the update, don't remove them, and instead use
>
> rpm -e $(<list) --nodeps
>
> after removing all the other legacy kde packages you don't need.
> We will make the remining legacy packages happy again after the
> upgrade, by installing the kde2-compat library.
>
> Now go to the directory where you put the (B) group.
>
> cd ../kde-rpms
>
> Install kdebase, kdelibs plus anything else you want.    This will
> be the kde-3 distribution, except for kdevelop, kooka and kamera.
> I installed the lot, but in principle you can/should now be more selective.
> Move any packages you dont want to install to the parent directory
> (mv <file> ..), and install the rest.
>
> rpm -Uvh *rpm
>
> If you are installing the kde*devel* files, they will need
> qt-devel-3.0* to be installed.  If there are any other unresolved
> dependencies, they are supplied by RedHat 7.2 rpms that you haven't
> yet installed. In my case, kdepim-pilot needed (I think) the RH7.2
> pilot-link rpm (wich provides libpisock.so.4).
> I don't need this app, and so moved kdepim-pilot up to the "A" group.
> After that there were no more dependency problems, and kde3 installed OK.
>
> Now restart X and you should have kde3 working.
> ( "telinit 5",  or "startx" )
>
> ----------------------------------------
> 6.  Installing remaining KDE3 rpms:
> Go back to the top directory which contains the (C) group.
> Now install what you need from the remaining RPMS:
>
> 6.1   kdevelop, kdesdk  (for programmers developing kde applications)
> This requires that qt-devel, qt-designer and qt-static are installed.
> rpm -Uvh qt-devel*  kde*-devel*  (if necessary)
> rpm -Uvh qt-designer* qt-static* (if necessary)
> rpm -Uvh kdevelop* kdesdk*
>
>
> 6.2  kooka. (a scanner front end) This requires that sane-backends
> is installed.   There is a sane-backends update in RedHat updates for
> RH7.2.
> rpm -UVh libusb*
> rpm -vh libkscane* kooka*
>
>
> 6.3 kamera.  A frontend for gphoto2.
> rpm -Uvh libusb*  (if needed)
> rpm -Uvh gphoto2-2* kamera*
>
>
> 6.4 hotplug support for autoloading usb support when you plug in
> a usb device (supplied for use with scanners or usb digital cameras)
> First install hwdata*.   Unfortunately, this conflicts with Xconfigurator,
> if it is installed.   It is just an updated list of hardware, so this
> is probably NOT a problem.  Just "force" it.
>
> rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps hwdata*
> rpm -Uvh usbutils* hotplug*
>
> If you are unhappy about having used  "--force", now uninstall
> Xconfigurator to remove the conflict:
> rpm -e Xconfigurator  XFree86-xf86cfg    (optional)
>
> 6.5  Support for python-based kde apps:
> If you need this:
>
> rpm -Uvh PyQt* sip* lib*python*
>
> ----------------------------------------
> 7. adding legacy kde2 support.
>
> If you forced the removal of kde-2.x with --nodeps, you have some
> legacy applications that still require the "legacy" kde-2 libraries.
> You now need to install the kde2-compat library from rawhide,
> rebuilt from source, unless it  becomes available at kde.org
>
> From the rawhide mirror, get qt2*rpm , and kde2-compat*rpm.
>
> You will also need kdoc-2.2.2 to rebuild kde2-compat.
> This is an official Red Hat update that was released with
> the official kde-2.2.2 rpms as an "enhancement" for RedHat 7.2.
>
> First rebuild qt2:
>
> rpm --rebuild qt2*src.rpm
> cp /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/qt2* .
>
> Now replace the qt-2.x package that you left installed, with
> the qt2 package (exactly the same libraries!)
>
> rpm -e --nodeps qt-2.3.1
> rpm -e --nodeps qt-Xt-2.3.1
> rpm -Uvh qt2-2.3.1* qt2-Xt* qt2-devel*
>
> Now rebuild and install kde2-compat.
> If kdoc-2.2.2 is not installed, install it first:
>
> rpm -Uvh kdoc-2.2.2*   (if necessary)
> rpm --rebuild kde2-compat*src.rpm
> cp /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/kde2-compat* .
> rpm -Uvh kde2-compat*
> rpm -e kdoc
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Enjoy kde3 on RedHat 7.2
> duncan_haldane at users.sourceforge.net
>
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