[arch-general] Painful installation of 4.3 - some general advice needed.

[Thomas Bächler]

richard terry schrieb:
> 1) the libjepg.7 vs 62 problem - I've exhaustively tried every solution over
> the last few hours on the forums and cannot get kmail to work - loads but
> 'poof; up in smoke once the gui appears

On a fresh install, there is no issue with libjpeg at all, there's just 
the .so.7, nothing else. Didn't try kmail, but I've seen it working.

> 2) Dolphin -  I really liked konqueror - can one still install this as a
> file browser. I note there is a kdebase-konqueror package, using this >
> multiple 'file exists in the filesystem' messages I could use a force but
> god knows what this will trash. Any alternatives.

No problems here, kdebase-konqueror is installed here and there was 
never any conflict.

> 5) Kwrite ? same applies kdebase-kwrite but is it possible to install under
> kde4.3?

kdebase-kwrite is also installed here. What did you screw up to get all 
these conflicts? There is no problem with the packages in extra.

> Overall this has been a very very painful experience. I found the archlinux
> iso would in no way allow me to partition and format my disk - I created
> these with an external program > once they were recognised, at other times
> not, but at the end of the day installation was impossible.

Also never seen that.

> Chakra was kinder to me - recognised the existing partitions, and installed
> everything (alpha3), mind you no keyboard, so it died at the add user, so I
> used the arch install disk to boot that system, and manually added users and
> grub-install.
> 
> Then every second program seems to whinge about the libjepg thing.

Probably chakra installed tons of crap that is out of date or broken. 
When you install Arch from our repositories, there will be no problem 
with libjpeg or KDE, so please report these problems to chakra, not us.


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