Installing KDE 3.2 via apt-get

[Klaus-Peter Schrage]

David A. Bandel wrote:

>>
>>  > 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?

On a Redhat system, go to /var/cache/apt/archives and do
rpm -Uvh --force kde ...
But before you might take a look at this thread on the kde-redhat users 
list - perhaps your /etc/apt/sources-list doesn't have the proper 
settings to install kde 3.2:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=7142811

> apt-get is a front-end to dpkg.  I don't know on RH systems how like
> apt-get is to apt-get on Debian.  I can tell you that:
> 1.  --force-yes in apt-get != --force-all in dpkg
> 2.  because it's a front end, there's a _lot_ of functionality missing

apt-get for Redhat systems might be viewed as an intelligent front-end 
to rpm, usually tackling all dependency issues.
Klaus