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What's wrong with the provided and signed by a KDE developer diffs?
Link please...
http://download.kde.org/stable/3.0.3/contrib/diffs-3.0.2-3.0.3/
Thanks.
Hi,
I just tried to upgrade my rh7.3 box to kde 3.0.3 using the official packages and found some strange dependency problems :
kdelibs >= 3.0.3-10 is needed by kdebase-3.0.3-0.7
Unfortunately there's only kdelibs-3.0.3-0.7.i386.rpm
libartsflow-gcc2.96.so.1 is needed by arts-1.0.3-0.7
This lib is in arts-1.0.0-4 (?!?!?)
There are more of these dependency problems.
This seems very odd for an upgrade as it needs the old packages to be installed as well.
or, is this some backward compatibility stuff that i'm not aware about ?
If so, please provide a README to the RPMS in future.
Anyone knows what I'm supposed to do to get these installed ?
Regards,
Marcel Janssen
I'm trying to figure out the problem with kdebase. I'm hoping a rebuild will fix the problem, or maybe changing the spec file.
Your libartsflow-gcc2.96.so.1 problem is solved by rebuilding arts-1.0.3-0.7.srpm, which gets rid of that dependency, but that means you are going to have to rebuild the kdemultimedia package.
HTH
Thanks for your work on this !
I'm not in any hurry to upgrade, so I'll upgrade when the kdebase problem gets fixed.
Regards,
Marcel Janssen
I have the same problem with kdebase and kdelibs. i installed the kdelibs anyway and all most applications crash on any save action... i hope this gets fixed soon
Any idea on when the new rpms will be available?
Kent
Yeah, new RPMS would be appreciated.
I second the request for the correct kdelibs to be added to the RPMs for us compile-impared.
Thanks.
Definitely broken, yes. Seems the folks at Redhat screwed up rather badly on the arts package and the kdebase package.
There is a bug ticket at bugzilla.redhat.com for both of these issues. The arts issue has not yet been assigned to anyone for fixing.
Fortunately, both issues are easily resolved.
kdebase problem: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=71804
Step by step, for the compile-impared
1) Download the kdebase-3.0.3-0.7.src.rpm
2) Install it (rpm -Uvh is my favorite, but whatever...)
3) It will write a .spec file in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
4) Modify the spec file, replace the line that says:
kdelibs >= %{version}-10 libxml2 >= 2.4.12
with
kdelibs == %{version}-%{rel} libxml2 >= 2.4.12
5) Build your binary from the modified spec file - rpm -bb modified.spec. It will run off and dump your freshly minted rpms in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/
The arts-1.0.3-0.7 problem seems to be just that they used an incomplete version of the source tarball. I don't know how such a thing would happen, but it should be easily fixed.
I ended up just installing everything using --nodeps, and then installing the contrib arts-1.0.3-1.0 over-top of the broken one using rpm --force.
Come to think of it, the --nodeps flag probably eliminates the need to rebuild the kdebase package at all. So the easiest solution would be to just rpm -Fvh --nodeps everything and then install the updated arts package from the contrib directory.
Hmm. I guess the last paragraph eliminates the need for everything that preceeded it. Ah well.
Good luck.
Mick
I am using RH 7.2 and trying to upgrade to KDE 3.0.3. I am also running into this same problem:
rpm -Uvh kdelibs-3.0.3-2.i386.rpm
with failed dependencies (one being libartsflow-gcc2.96.so.1).
I have installed arts-3.0.2-2 and I can't go back because this would further
break other dependencies. I also ran into a weird problem with: libcups.so.2
I had to uninstall:
libcups1-devel-1.1.14-2mdk.i586.rpm,
libcups1-1.1.14-2mdk.i586.rpm and
qt-3.0.5-11.i686.rpm
then install:
cups-libs-1.1.14-10.i386.rpm and
qt-3.0.5-11.i686.rpm
this resulted in one less failed dependency when I tried to install kdelibs.
If you have luck let me know!
Thanks in advance,
James
If you run in any problem with a failed dependency like:
libartsflow-gcc2.96.so.1 missing...
ignore it, install the package with the nodeps-option and perform the following steps afterwrds:
locate the lib (written without the -gcc2.96 withch seems a special bonus of the RedHat guys) - in this case libartsflow.so.1 and create a symlink in the same directory:
ln -s libartsflow.so.1 libartsflow-gcc2.96.so.1
Problem solved.
I ran in this while installing other software, seems like other packages also contain this strange -gcc2.96 ending in the libs.
Alex
Dependency Problems? Loss of sleep? Rage problems? Frustration?. Dont worry. Linux us simple. Gentoo is simple.
root@localhost# emerge kde
Gentoo, just do it!
Yeah, and it really works too. It takes a few hours, but machine time is cheap. Gentoo is great.
Seems like an excellent distribution, but not particularly practical if you're on dialup.
Well, gentoo has the option to use binary files instead of compiling yourself , anyway if you use some other distro you have to download the rpms or the debs or whatever you want, so at the end it would be the same.... (Of course you lose the main feture of gentoo but makes it easy to get binaies that actually work)
I have tried to compile the Postgres Plugin but it didn`t work (i installed rpms and compiled only the sqlplugin and copied it into the sqldriver dir) but nothing happened there. Are there any rpms of this plugins for qt3.0.5 ??
"emerge kdebase" :o)
=)
Yeah gentoo!!!
Qt3 Designer doesn't work! Kdevelop rpm needs kdesdk rpms (not found / included in Kde3.0.3 Mdk8.2 release). Force installed using kdesdk rpms from kde3.0.2, KDevelop doesn't work properly - missing files. e.g. tutorials and html files.
QT Designer didn't work for me either when I tried the forced update of packages that everyone has been recommending. I thought it was just a RedHat bug though...
I could not understand why SuSE KDE packaging are far better than Mandrake and RedHat. It seems that the Mandrake packager is assuming that Mandrake users and not as good as SuSE users in terms software development. No KDEbindings and Development tools are missing. I am trying to use mono (C#) and Qt# and I need the KDEbindings and glib2 for these. Please, Mandrake package release the whole lot. Look at SuSE or Waldo package.
Kdesdk3.3.0.3 rpms are available now. They are date 28 August. I just downloaded it. I hope this will fix the breaking of Qt3(Qt3 designer not working) and KDevelop(can't create new programs).
On installing 3.0.3 the login manager doesn't display alternative desktops and does display all potential users even when these are corrected by the control centre settings
using suse 7.3 - any one else have this problem and/or any solutions?
best wishes
craig
how did you solve it? I ran into the same problem but am somehow stuck in xdm
piet
same prob, no idea to fix it :-(
I had the same problem with the SuSE 7.2. Here is how I solve it.
The rpms I first downloaded had a bug. I downloaded the new ones (31 august) from http://www.suse.com/us/private/download/linuks/index.html (it's better you have a good book to read while downloading) and installed them with -Uvh option.
But then kdm was unable to launch any system, nor kde nor gnome... After attempting a lot of solutions, I replaced the file /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc by a link to /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc.
Now it works fine.
I hope it could work for you too.
Best wishes
don Christophe
I also lost kdm login manager and had to resort to xdm and got pretty stressed . I replaced kdmrc in /etc/.. by a soft link to /opt/.. as suggested by don and hurray it works. Great :-)
Hi guys,
I don't know whether this is the same problem but the symptoms certainly are the same. I have just installed SuSE Linux 9.0 incl. the latest KDE 3 GUI interface. After using it for a couple of days, wupti! I cannot login!
Panic attack! If there is something that can make you nerveous then it is when you cannot log in to your system. What if I am permanently logged out? Will I have to reinstall the whole shooting match again? Have I lost my files?
So I did a search on the KDE site (http://www.kde.org/)
and searched on: "login problem" and promptly received a link to this posting.
I tried your suggestion and it worked! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! don Christope!
Now 2 questions for the KDE and SuSE people:
1) Why is this happening?
2) And since the problem has existed for over a year, why hasn't it been fixed?
Greetings to you all,
OdenseOle
Yup I got the same bug with SUSE 9.1 I think it's KDE 3.2.1 that I'm using.
Nasty little thing I gotta say, hope they fix it soon, that's not something that Joe User would be able to fix.
OdenseOle, may you show me how to fix this prblem? I use Sue 9.0. Aftering login the first time, I cannot login again ? why ? How to fix it ?
Thanks
I found this solution on
http://lists.suse.com/
I highly recomend this site.
If you use kde3 and /opt/kde3/bin/kdm as login-manager and always get an ugly
grey xdm-ish background make sure you have the following lines in
/etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup
kde3root=/opt/kde3/bin #Somewhere near line 52
for p in ${kde1root}/kdm \ #Starting cirka line 62
${kde2root}/kdm \
${kde3root}/kdm
I think it's time for me to try out KDE 3. Does anybody know how much disk space a basic KDE 3 system requires when compiled with GCC 3.2 without exceptions and RTTI? I only have about 1 GB free disk space (!).
I've rebuilt a bunch of the RPMS and I believe I've fixed all the dependencies involving kdebase/kdelibs, and libarts*-gcc2.96 problems.
If anyone is interested and can provide some space to host the RPMs, then I don't mind posting them.
I've installed them on my RH 7.3 system, as well as two other relatively virgin RH 7.3 systems.
cheers,
steve
I've discovered a problem where korginizer lost a day, aug only has
30 days if I specify the week begins on sunday, if I specify the week
begins on Monday, than, sept starts with sep 2.
Assuming I can't get a fix, I guess my recourse is to upgrade to kde 3.0.3
I did a rpm --test --replacefiles -ivh *.rpm
and rpm did no complaints. Any thoughts on my chances of success
??
Hi
I'd much like those fixed RPMs of yours!
I cant seem to find them and since I've broken my
gcc-2.96 it seems I can't compile...
Contact me via e-mail!
With the redhat rpms, I can't run qt designer or qtconfig, they both segfault, is it just me?
no