I recently installed Slack 9.1, then was using KWord a lot for research
papers. I needed to be able to open Word .docs and couldn't, and it was
also crashing a lot so I used the pkgtool to install KOffice 1.3 and now
have no problems; everything was working great after the new version and
the Word filter. I then felt positive about upgrades and downloaded all of
the KDE 3.2.2 tgz packages from linuxpackages.net, taking note that I
needed to upgrade qt to at least 3.2.3, so I downloaded that .tgz as well.

I then used pkgtool to remove the old ones and install the new ones. I have
tried this in several differnt orders with no luck--that is, installing qt
first then the kde libs and base and finally the rest of kde one time then
in a different order another time after one way failed. I can't get into
KDE. I get a white screen like it is about to go and then a small xwindow
with a complaint about kdeinit, then a refernce to libkdeui.so.4 from the
startkde script (if i recall the path was usr/local/bin).

I'm several hundred miles from my linux machine for about a week, but would
like to get a thread running so when I return I'll have some
recommendations to try and can get any downloads I may need while I have
access to a high speed connection (at home it's dial-up). I'm cunfused
about whether I am having version conflicts or configuration conflicts. If
there are some common upgrade considerations for something like KDE that
aren't mentioned in general instructions that a linux newbie like myself
generally run across, I would be glad to hear them. A simple list of how
one might approach this upgrade would be greatly appreciated.

Aaron

Upgrade tool is swaret in slackware. It takes care of dependencies. Use
swaret for upgrading. It would upgrade X to new XFree86-4.4 which Qt 3.2.3
and KDE 3.2.2 are built and run on.

Aaron wrote :

> I then used pkgtool to remove the old ones and install the new ones. I have
> tried this in several differnt orders with no luck-

When you are install prebuild packages using pkgtool you can install the
packages in whatever order you want. The order cant effect the final
result.

But it seems like you not alone. The problem is being discussed with
"pcxz" who build the packages. Keep an eye at this site, maybe they will
come up with an solution before you get back.
<URL: http://www.linuxpackages.net/pkg_details.php?id=2299>
--
Thomas O.

This area is designed to become quite warm during normal operation.

SuperDaemon <Super@DiskAndExecutionMONitor.biz> wrote in
news:66oic.8337$gH6.5017@newsread3.news.atl.earthl ink.net:

>
> Upgrade tool is swaret in slackware. It takes care of dependencies.
> Use swaret for upgrading. It would upgrade X to new XFree86-4.4 which
> Qt 3.2.3 and KDE 3.2.2 are built and run on.

Thanks, but one issue is that my dial-up connection at home is 26400 due to
crappy phone lines, so I'm downloading all the KDE, QT, XFree86 packages to
take back with me. That leaves my question being whether or not I can use
swaret to point to my cdrom drive or a disk partition rather than the web-
based locations by editing a config file or something. I'm getting the QT
3.3.1 which KDE 3.2.2 seems to be compiled with so maybe that will help
too, and I'll do the Xfree86 upgraded as well, as long as it won't affect
GNOME and other desktops in a negative way.

Aaron

On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 11:10:57 +0200, Thomas Overgaard wrote:

>
> Aaron wrote :
>
>> I then used pkgtool to remove the old ones and install the new ones. I have
>> tried this in several differnt orders with no luck-
>
> When you are install prebuild packages using pkgtool you can install the
> packages in whatever order you want. The order cant effect the final
> result.
>
> But it seems like you not alone. The problem is being discussed with
> "pcxz" who build the packages. Keep an eye at this site, maybe they will
> come up with an solution before you get back.
> <URL: http://www.linuxpackages.net/pkg_details.php?id=2299>

Hmm, I have used swaret since moving to slackware in order to get updates
from current without any trouble at all. I recommend it FWIW.

--
Regards
garbage
garbagedisposal@despammed.com

Aaron wrote:

> That*leaves*my*question*being*whether*or*not*I*can *use
> swaret to point to my cdrom drive or a disk partition rather than the web-
> based locations by editing a config file or something.**I'm*getting*the*QT
> 3.3.1 which KDE 3.2.2 seems to be compiled with so maybe that will help
> too, and I'll do the Xfree86 upgraded as well



yes you can have swaret to do those things. man swaret.

swaret would still check dependencies, it may not find them on your CD-ROM
or DVD but it will tell you (you'd have to get those dependencies
manually from elsewhere; maybe with those phone lines? however long they
may take).