Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading KDE

[Zac Medico <zmedico@gmail.com>]

Daniel D Jones wrote:
> Currently running KDE 3.3.  I get the following:
> 
> root@Merlin:/# emerge --pretend kde-meta
> 
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
> 
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
> [blocks B     ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking 
> kde-base/kscreensaver-3.4.1)
> [blocks B     ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/khotkeys-3.4.1)
> [blocks B     ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdesu-3.4.1)
> [blocks B     ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking 
> kde-base/kdebase-data-3.4.1)
> [blocks B     ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kcminit-3.4.1)
> [blocks B     ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking 
> kde-base/khelpcenter-3.4.1-r1)
> [blocks B     ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking 
> kde-base/kcontrol-3.4.1-r1)
> [blocks B     ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdm-3.4.1)
> [blocks B     ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking 
> kde-base/kdebugdialog-3.4.1)
> [blocks B     ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/libkonq-3.4.1)
> [blocks B     ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kicker-3.4.1)
> [blocks B     ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kappfinder-3.4.1)
> [blocks B     ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking 
> kde-base/ksysguard-3.4.1-r1)
> ....
> 
> 
> And lots more, of course.  Do I really have to uninstall 3.3 to  install 3.4?
> 

It's saying that you need to unmerge =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* because that package is split into the other ones you see there.  You can fool portage into thinking it's not installed with "mv /var/db/pkg/kde-base/kdebase-3.4* /tmp" but do so at your own risk.

Zac
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