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

[Ali H. Caliskan]

Well, I'm not a Chakra or kde user but I can say that I quite familiar with
the PKGBUILDS of core and extra packages, and needless to say, it's not
always consistent most of the times. So stop blaming others and work your
ass off when required!

/ali

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org>wrote:

> 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 Probably chakra installed tons of crap that is out of date or broken.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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