On Wednesday 17 June 2009 08:29:29 Pierre Schmitz wrote:
On Wednesday 17 June 2009 15:00:32 David C. Rankin wrote:
Evidently kde4 saw and conflict with the kde3 packages and didn't install anything. The last line of the output was:
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
Talk about a bummer.... What does the brain-trust suggest?
Make sure you don't have any third packages related to KDE installed (aka kdemod). If you don't have KDE installed from extra before there will be a problem with installing kde the first time from kde-unstable.
If you install by group (pacman -S kde) pacman tries to install the kde group it finds in extra and the on in kde-unstable. And then you'll get a file conflict of course.
Three options: * just install kdebase-workspace and everything else you need by hand * run pacman -S kde and make sure to answer "no" to all packages you will be asked for the second time (the first ones will be from kde-unstable and the other ones from extra) * Use the kde-meta group or kde-meta-* packages to install
Note that this is just pacman's limitation and you are only affected when using testing/kde-unstable and don't just update but make a new install of KDE.
Err -- Ah Ha! So Arch uses /opt/kde for both kde3 and kde4 instead of leaving kde3 as /opt/kde and installing kde4 in /usr/bin. That's got to be the difference and the reason I can't have both kde3 and kde4 live side-by-side?? Is that correct? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com