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