Installing KDE 3.2 via apt-get

[Michael Hipp]

David A. Bandel wrote:

> you've still got 1.0.2 installed? 1.1.0 is _much_ better

I've been using 1.1.0 for quite some time now. But I never bothered to 
uninstall 1.0.2 since RH spread it all over creation in /usr and I had 
no idea what might break if I removed it, so I just installed OOo 1.1.0 
in /opt where it belongs.

>>koffice-1.2.1-7
> 
> w/ OO, why do you need this?

Because it comes in RH9 and there is no particular reason not to have it 
around in case it is ever needed. Kwrite is occasionally useful.

  > you need to:
> cd /var/cache/apt/archives
> dpkg -i --force-all kde_blah_blah.deb etc.
> 
> then upgrade OO.

I guess I forgot to say that this is a Red Hat 9 system; it does not 
appear that I have dpkg. And why would '--force-all' work here when it 
doesn't work within apt-get?

Thanks,
Michael