Konstruct & Yum update to KDE

Neal Wilkinson forums.lists at comcast.net
Sat Mar 19 15:00:31 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 09:32 -0500, Neal Wilkinson wrote:
> So I started yesterday morning wanting to get the new KDE. I used
> Konstruct because "A complete KDE installation should be as easy as "cd
> meta/kde;make install" haha...yeah right. So about 20 dependencies later
> (it became a mission after a while) and after getting bad info (You're
> missing openSSL, or your version is too old (before 0.9.5a).
> KDE won't be able to access secure websites without it, so you should
> consider installing or upgrading it.) I have OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19 2003,
> then I decided to give in and try Yum. I would allow Konstruct to win if
> I could just have my life back. So anywho, I added the redhat
> repositories and then type "yum install kde qt arts kdelibs kdebase gtk+
> gtk2 redhat-artwork as it says to do on the website." Yum doesn't find
> kde. Is there a way to list repositories with yum so that you know what
> something is called? I must be doing something stupid as I don't believe
> it could be this difficult. Thanks for the help.

Nevermind. I thought I had copied the repo file to the yum.repos.d
directory but I don't have permissions to it but it also didn't give me
an error. Working now. 




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