Tron Thomas wrote: > I then tried "rpm -Fvh *.rpm" to perform the upgrade, and I received a > message telling me that one of the components in koffice conflicted with > one of the components I was trying to installed. I never use koffice so > I didn't care about the conflict. I tried "rpm --replacefiles -Fvh > *.rpm". This allowed all the packages to install. This will just get you into a mess! Some package names have changes, with some packages being split others merged, etc. It's best to remove the old kde packages then install the new ones. Have a look at a posting I made in comp.windows.x.kde a while ago http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=c1vqve%241o8mkf%241%40ID-213984.news.uni-berlin.de Jonathan ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.