Install of 3.1.1 Goes Bad

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Maceo Jourdan wrote:
> Thanks Darryl,
> 
> You're exactly right. How did you know that?
> 
> However, I think I've buggered it good now.
> 
> I decided to do a manual update back to 3.0.5, which came with 8.1 of SuSE.
> Now KDE won't load.  I get an error:
> xsetroot: unable to open display ''
> xset:unable to open display  ""
> xset:unable to open display  ""
> xset:unable to open display  ""
> xset:unable to open display  ""
> each of these: ksplash, kdeinit, ksmserver
> generated this:
> libqt-mt.so.3 cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> Maceo.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "1stFlight" <1stflight at ameritech.net>
> To: <kde at mail.kde.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 8:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [kde] Install of 3.1.1 Goes Bad
> 
> 
> 
>>Sounds like you have the wrong version of Qt installed,  the KDE SuSE
> 
> shipped
> 
>>with was 3.0.3  . I belive SuSE is rpm based if so, open a terminal window
>>and type "rpm -qa | grep qt " if it returns anything besides 3.1.x ,
> 
> that's
> 
>>your problem.
>>
>>-Darryl
>>
>>
>>
>>On Tuesday 15 April 2003 07:02 pm, Maceo Jourdan wrote:
>>
>>>Greetings,
>>>
>>>I am a long-time windows user, migrating over to Linux. I have SuSE 8.1
>>>installed.
>>>
>>>I tried to update KDE to 3.1.1 without success, it seems. Several
> 
> functions
> 
>>>are inoperative (KDiskFree and KwikDisk won't start) and others like
> 
> kMail
> 
>>>crash repeatedly.
>>>
>>>Previous attempts to install gave various dependency errors.  I didn't
>>>think I was an idiot prior to this venture, although that is quickly
> 
> coming
> 
>>>under question.
>>>
>>>YaST doesn't seem to like installing to any ftp directory other than the
>>>built in selections so I downloaded the .rpm files in /base and executed
>>>rpm -U --nodeps *.rpm.
>>>
>>>Which didn't work... Ah!  I can FORCE IT!  So, I execute rpm -U --nodeps
>>>--force *.rpm.   Hmmm. Seems to work.  I then diligently proceed to
> 
> apply
> 
>>>that command line across /applications as well.  However, I still have
>>>various problems across most applications (instablity mostly).
>>>
>>>Is there a document somewhere I can read? Surgery I can have performed?
>>>Suggestions?  Perhaps Window$ has made me lazy...
>>>
>>>Thank you,
>>>
>>>Maceo Jourdan
>>
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Maceo,
I had this problem not long ago, the way I had to fix it was to use
apt-get from command line to fix it.
Using apt-get from command line after making an internet connection
#apt-get --reinstall install kde3base and see what this returns.
David
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