[Kmymoney] problems when updating KMM 4.5 to 4.6 in openSUSE 11.4 /KDE 4.6

[Michael Berger]

Hi,
you may  recall my recent report on KMyMoney when I was not able anymore to 
enter decimal places in split transactions.
Thomas proposed to check the language settings and indeed,  I found these 
to be empty.

Thomas and Alvaro suggested that this was probably not a KMM related problem 
and I inclined to believe that it must have to do with my distro.

I followed up on this and now would like to share my findings with you.

YAST does NOT automatically offer to update KMM to 4.6 but, if for instance, 
the repository KDE:Distro:Factory is present you are able and free to do so 
and if you take that decision a list of additional packages will be installed 
alongside - see screen shot.

After Ok the installation runs smoothly without any warnings or errors.

KMM is upgraded to 4.6 and behaves normal except for the puzzling fact that 
again all the settings are empty.

YAST is a fantastic instrument and up to that moment I was absolutely sure it 
was taking care of all dependencies.

But when starting to work with other applications many problems turned up. 
Just to name the most obvious ones: Kontact was not working at all, logging 
out and shutting off had often to be forced by pulling the plug,  not only KMM 
frequently froze but also the entire system, various settings were gone as 
well etc.   

After I removed all the newly upgraded packages my system returned back to 
normal.

You can repeat this as often as you want.
Now, as long as you only install the updates announced by KpackageKit you are 
save (upgrading KMM to 4.6 was not yet recommended!). However if you are the 
type of experiment-enthusiastic freak lime me it is good to know when you 
start acting on your own responsibility.

I got curious and tried more. Here is another example.
I am writing my documents with Lyx and Kile is its recommended Latex Source 
Editor. When installing Kile 2.1 the list of dependent packages to install is 
even longer and again, Kontact and its other components are on it (that's what 
you have fear Torsten!).
No warnings and/or error messages but you will most probably run into similar 
problems when proceeding.

And while all this does not come as a surprise to the developers I hope to 
ordinary users this is as helpful as it was to me.

Thanks to all who continue to come along with helpful advice.

Cheers! 


Michael Berger
Im Borngrund 7a
35606 Solms-Oberndorf
Fon: +49 6442 706509
Fax: 4932121247536
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Registered Linux User 520453
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