[Mageia-discuss] Mageia-discuss Digest, Vol 6, Issue 61, KDE won't install

Doug Laidlaw laidlaws at hotkey.net.au
Mon Feb 28 13:27:05 CET 2011


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>    1. KDE won't install (Doug Laidlaw)
>    2. Re: KDE won't install (Dexter Morgan)
>    3. Re: KDE won't install (Ahmad Samir)
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> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:26:38 +1100
> From: Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws at hotkey.net.au>
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> Subject: [Mageia-discuss] KDE won't install
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> My recent upgrades of KDE won't install  First the updates conflicted with
> Konqueror.  I uninstalled Konqueror, and with it the task-kde packages. 
> Then I was able to start installing a whole new KDE, but got a different
> set of conflicts.  There seem to be no bugs filed about this.
> 
> Is it a local error? Would I be better reinstalling and updating from the
> fresh start?
> 
> Doug.
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> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 14:31:30 +0100
> From: Dexter Morgan <dmorganec at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Mageia-discuss] KDE won't install
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> On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws at hotkey.net.au> 
wrote:
> > My recent upgrades of KDE won't install ?First the updates conflicted
> > with Konqueror. ?I uninstalled Konqueror, and with it the task-kde
> > packages. ?Then I was able to start installing a whole new KDE, but got
> > a different set of conflicts. ?There seem to be no bugs filed about
> > this.
> > 
> > Is it a local error? Would I be better reinstalling and updating from the
> > fresh start?
> > 
> > Doug.
> 
> what would be usefull if still possible is the urpmi logs ( if it
> conflicts because of files moved, this will allow kde ppl to fix it )
> can you open a bugreport about this ?
> 
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> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 18:45:53 +0200
> From: Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Mageia-discuss] KDE won't install
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> On 27 February 2011 15:31, Dexter Morgan <dmorganec at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws at hotkey.net.au> 
wrote:
> >> My recent upgrades of KDE won't install ?First the updates conflicted
> >> with Konqueror. ?I uninstalled Konqueror, and with it the task-kde
> >> packages. ?Then I was able to start installing a whole new KDE, but got
> >> a different set of conflicts. ?There seem to be no bugs filed about
> >> this.
> >> 
> >> Is it a local error? Would I be better reinstalling and updating from
> >> the fresh start?
> >> 
> >> Doug.
> > 
> > what would be usefull if still possible is the urpmi logs ( if it
> > conflicts because of files moved, this will allow kde ppl to fix it )
> > can you open a bugreport about this ?
> 
> That kdebase4-common/konqueror issue has been fixed already, simply
> waiting and updating at a later time should have worked.
> 
> But indeed as dmorgan said, always save the urpmi output/log and file
> a bug report if needed, without urpmi logs it's guesswork unless it
> can be reproduced by one of the maintainers. :)
>
Thanks for the advice.  Since I had tried my own fix and probably shot myself 
in the foot, I did a complete reinstall, monitoring syslog as I did so. 
Everything installed without a hitch.  I reasoned that any bugs existing in my 
previous system would now be history. :)

Doug.


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