upgrading from 3.5.4 to 3.5.5: did not work. how come?

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Wednesday, November 15th 2006, 2:57pm

Hello!

I downloaded konstruct to upgrade my KDE. The instructions said I just needed to go to <PATH>/konstruct/meta and type # make install.

Well, I did just that! It started out ok. Donwloading tons of stuff, checking md5sums, extracting, etc. At a given package it stopped saying the package couldn't be found. I tried again, the package was found and it went forward.

After a while it finished installing the packages. I figured all was OK since no errors were shown and shutdown the computer. Today, as I logged in, kopete popped up an error message:

	Source code
1 2	SSL support could not be initialized for account <username>@gmail.com. This is most likely because the QCA TLS plugin is not installed on your system.

Immediately I opened a terminal (I use Slackware) and typed pkgtool and viewed the installed packages. To my surprise I couldn't find any 3.5.5 kde related packages installed, only 3.5.4. What could've happened? All thoughts and hints are welcome (should they lead to a solution!

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Since the only different thing I did was trying upgrading KDE, I figured either installation went awry or it did not install at all. Anyway I, during the supposed installation, downloaded all packages from http://www.kde.org/download/, assuming if I had to reinstall my system (which I probably will at some time) this is much faster. Now, since I'll probably not be using konstruct anymore, where can I find a tutorial or how-to I can use to upgrade KDE.

Thanks in advance!

Gustavo

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bram85

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Wednesday, November 15th 2006, 9:43pm

RE: upgrading from 3.5.4 to 3.5.5: did not work. how come?

Maybe it installed in another prefix, somewhere in your home directory?

Bram Schoenmakers
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Synic

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Sunday, January 7th 2007, 12:30am

RE: upgrading from 3.5.4 to 3.5.5: did not work. how come?

I had a 'similar' problem. I couldnt upgrad from KDE 3.5.4 to 3.5.5. either It gave me errors about conflicting with KDE v 3.5.4. when I attempted 'updating' through yummex.

To get around conflict error, which is a bit extreem in my opinion but I had tried a dozzen times to upgrade and all results gave me the same error; I rebooted into Gnome, uninstalled all of KDE, (which I may or may not have had to do but I was worried about the 'dependancy issue' and then reinstalled just the core package; again to avoid any dependancy issues; and avoided the errors or conflicts or whatever they were.

Then reinstalled all the other KDE packages. Then yumex told me of some dependancies it needed which I just said OK to and off yumex went; happy as can be, no issues Then reboot back into KDE with new (only) version - And it kept my settings.

Dont know if this would help, and its a bit extreem in my opinion, but it worked for me. It is almost like WindowZ when windowz wont let you delete or change somthing if it is in memory or you have it open... you have to stop it, turn if off, get it out of memory. I guess if you have KDE 'in memory' or 'open/running' then it might not allow changes????. Now I am a little green when it comes to linux so you might like to verify that but that is how I got around the 'upgrade' conflict error I got.

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "Synic" (Jan 7th 2007, 12:31am)

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Rinse

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Sunday, January 7th 2007, 12:51am

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Immediately I opened a terminal (I use Slackware) and typed pkgtool and viewed the installed packages. To my surprise I couldn't find any 3.5.5 kde related packages installed, only 3.5.4. What could've happened?

From what I see, you never installed dpkg packages of kde 3.5.5, but compiled KDE 3.5.5 from source.
So dpkg has no information about the current state of the software.
If you want to know which version of kde you are running, select [Help->about KDE] in a KDE application.

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