[arch-general] KDE4.3 Beta - Rocks, still a bit rough, but very usable as a primary desktop

[Pierre Schmitz]

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.

See also: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KDE_Packages

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