[arch-general] kde-unstable install - Round 2 - There is a BUG here...

[David Rosenstrauch]

On Wed, June 17, 2009 7:49 pm, David C. Rankin wrote:
> DR, List
>
> 	Here is the situation after the difficulty I had installing kde-unstable
> on
> the x86_64 box where I finally just installed with '-f', I have the exact
> setup on an i686 box where I am trying to install kde-unstable, but this
> time
> finding a way to do it without resorting to the '-f' option. On the box, I
> have kdemod3 installed and configured and I have never specifically
> installed
> kde4 from anywhere (I guess I got it by default with the Arch install).
>
> 	So far, all packages for kde-unstable have been downloaded to the i686
> box
> when I tried to install kde-unstable with 'pacman -Sy kde kde-extragear'.
> There were 20000+ lines of conflicts of the following type:

Egads!  How many times do I have to say it?!?!?

1) First UNINSTALL any existing KDE packages.
i.e., repeat:  pacman -Rs kde-<whatever>

2) Then, install KDE from unstable.
i.e., pacman -S kde

Sheesh!  :-)

DR