KDE 3.2/3.3 and SUSE 9.0

[John Voigt]

On 10/04/2004 04:55 PM, Roger Oberholtzer eloquently noted:

> I see that there are some unsatisfied dependencies that lead YAST to
> remove some SUSE packages. These include graphviz, libgnokii and
> libbluetooth. RPMs with these are on the SUSE ftp site - but they are
> not in a place YAST looks. So these can be sorted out.

Hmmm. It's been awhile since I've done the update, but these seem to be parts
of packages I dont' normally use. gnokii appears to be a package for a Nokia
cellphone (which I don't have), graphviz appears to be a GNU Emacs/TeX editor
(which I don't use either), and I don't have any bluetooth devices, so I guess
I wouldn't have noticed ;-)

> What remains is that the original kdebase3 RPM provides
> libkateinterfces.so, while the 3.3 RPM provides libkateinterfaces.so.0
> instead. So, when you update kdebase3, some existing KDE packages that
> are not in the update (7 of them) do not want to stay installed. There
> are a few libraries like this, I am tempted to keep a copy of these
> files, tell YAST to ignore this, and put these files back. I'm going to
> sleep on it and see what I do in tomorrow. It is probably not a good
> idea.

FWIW (watch the linewrap) it seems to deal with the symlinks:

1011[jvoigt at dnrrec-tux]/opt/kde3/lib> ls -la libkate*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         1653 2004-08-19 09:38 libkateinterfaces.la
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           26 2004-08-26 08:45 libkateinterfaces.so -> libkateinterfaces.so.0.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           26 2004-08-26 08:45 libkateinterfaces.so.0 -> libkateinterfaces.so.0.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       939778 2004-08-19 11:47 libkateinterfaces.so.0.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         1528 2004-08-23 11:10 libkatepartinterfaces.la
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           30 2004-08-26 08:40 libkatepartinterfaces.so -> libkatepartinterfaces.so.0.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           30 2004-08-26 08:40 libkatepartinterfaces.so.0 -> libkatepartinterfaces.so.0.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       132314 2004-08-23 11:25 libkatepartinterfaces.so.0.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         1393 2004-08-19 09:35 libkateutils.la
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           21 2004-08-26 08:45 libkateutils.so -> libkateutils.so.0.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           21 2004-08-26 08:45 libkateutils.so.0 -> libkateutils.so.0.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        46423 2004-08-19 11:47 libkateutils.so.0.0.0

These seem to be for the kate text editor, which is included in the new
kdebase3 package. It works for me(tm). I don't recall what the other
packages are.

HTH,

John V.
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