Problem solved

[Netopia]

Ok... guess I'll stop at 3.0.5 (or maybe 5a) because there aren't any binaries yet for 3.1 and I'm just too much of a nOOOObie at this to figure out the long install. Gimme time though.....

Joe

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Netopia
Ok... guess I'll stop at 3.0.5 (or maybe 5a) because there aren't any binaries yet for 3.1 and I'm just too much of a nOOOObie at this to figure out the long install. Gimme time though.....

Joe

Unless you have a very fast machine, KDE can take a while to compile. It took me several hours the one time I tried it (through BSD ports). Several meaning a couple of days of non-constant compilation. 😛

 

[manly]

Yeah unless you're a 1337 Gentoo geek, you don't want to be wasting your life away (okay just your CPU cycles) compiling any of the large software suites out there, i.e. KDE, GNOME, XF86, etc.

Btw, this isn't so much a problem with RPM as it is a problem with Red Hat Linux. Ideally, their up2date service would regularly offer software updates (such as KDE minor version upgrades) in a timely manner. Now I haven't used up2date but I experience the same problem with SuSE's YaST Online Update (except that in my view, YOU is junk). In general, each of the vendors has a strict "no new software, only critical updates" in old stable trees philosophy (some more than others) but arguably sometimes they should allow the consumer to relax this restriction without jumping through hoops.

The alternative forces end users to become more skilled Linux sysadmins, manually upgrading software packages. And while RPM does do full dependency checking, it doesn't really do dependency resolution. So we're stuck trying to figure out exactly what packages are missing and where to get them.

That's why in this example, downloading the *whole* KDE tree and doing a Freshen usually provides successful results without much user intervention. For future reference, I would suggest:

rpm --help

 

[vfouquereau]

Bump for the CDRs.

Bump left : 3

 

[sciencewhiz]

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[Shamrock]

Cheap Linux CD's

Look in the product catalog section...$7.50 for Linux, I know you're strapped for cash, but that's as cheap as I could find it. US$2.97 & US$4.50 shipping.

 

[vfouquereau]

Thanks for all the links guys!

Finally, I came over the mountain and downloaded all Mdk9.0 over my 56k...

Maybe I look like a greedy bastard but eh, gotta do with what we have! 🙂

Thanks again everyone!

 

[civad]

2+ gigs on dialup is nothing 🙂

(j/k)

I know what you must be going through, my co-dialupers'...

I decided to use the money saved by NOT getting broadband for buying a Mandrake 9.0 boxed set .

That was three weeks ago.

Update : Info from Mandrakestore.com (Track your order)

Order # XXXX
email: xxxx

Your order is waiting to be processed.

Well: then why charge me $ 35 three weeks ago??

Sigh!