Re: How do you install KDE?

[Ben Paul Wise <bwise sito saic com>]

Folks,

I got it to work the brute-force way: 

(A) gather the list of required rpm's from the KDE website

(B) execute a little script that installs each, in order, ignoring 
dependencies. the script is just a bunch of lines like 'rpm --upgrade 
--nodeps ...' 

(C) execute a little script that verifies each, in order. the script is just 
a bunch of lines like 'rpm --verify ...' 

(D) scrounge around rpmfind to get the remaining rpm's, and install them.

This is quite ugly, but after doing so I have not only a working list of 
which rpm's need to be installed, but a script to install and a script to 
verify.  

Something neater would be a nice contribution to the community. Any 
volunteers?


On Friday 13 April 2001 10:42, John Nelson allegedly wrote:
> Yes it does come on the CDROM.  It's also available on the web.  Both
> avenues give me problems.
>
> -- John
>
> On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Kalum / Grendel wrote:
> > On  Thu, 12 Apr 2001, John Nelson commented thusly,
> >
> > > Well that's nice but when I try to install KDE with rpm I get buckets
> > > of dependencies that RPM doesn't know how to resolve.  Ok, so I try
> > > GnoRPM... but when I click on "install" for the various KDE packages,
> > > GnoRPM goes out and acts like its installing stuff on my machine but
> > > ... the dependencies are still there.
> >
> > Doesnt RH 7.x come with KDE? If it does then you should be able to find
> > the KDE rpm's on the CD'rom or on rpmfind.net in the rh7.x folders.
> >
> > Best Wishes,
> > Grendel

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