How I updated to KDE 3.2

[Tarjei Knapstad]

On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 05:19, Charles Howse wrote:
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> The next thing that didn't work was KMail.
> I clicked the KMail icon, and it errored with:
> kdeinit cannot start kmail.
> I started kmail from a terminal and the actual error is:
> cannot find libkdenetwork.so.2
> KNode depends on this library, as well.
> 
> I did yum provides libkdenetwork.so.2, and that told me that kdepim-develop 
> provides libkdenetwork.so.2, so I did yum install kdepim-develop, and 
> installed kdepim-develop and it's dependencies.
> Now KMail is working properly.
> 

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Surely this has to be a packaging bug? Dynamic libraries that are linked
to by applications shouldn't reside in a -devel package. I'd report this
to the KDE package maintainers if you're absolutely sure that
libkdenetwork.so.2 resides in kdepim-develop (sounds very strange to
me...)

Cheers,
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Tarjei