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Date:      Thu, 15 Mar 2001 18:21:01 -0800
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com>
To:        Ben Ossei <ben@cahostnet.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: KDE2! Bug or no Bug!
Message-ID:  <3AB1788D.C067BFFD@urx.com>
References:  <01031520082301.00426@bsd1.ca-systems.net>

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Ben Ossei wrote:
> 
> When you install KDE2.0pre the items in your program menu quadruples.  Is
> this a bug?   I recently had a machine that was running the older version.
> To test this I upgraded it to 2.0 and sure enough the problem game back.  I'm
> I doing something wrong?  Any information will be appreciated.

It isn't a bug. It is because you didn't install it properly. I can't
define properly more than if it works, you did it properly. I think
KDE upgrades either fail or work. When you have the multiple items in
the menu's, you have a failure. 

From personal experience, you have to uninstall KDE-x before you try
to upgrade it to something higher. I don't know if it is from being
bitten too many times but I start out clean with KDE. Some of this you
can do by capturing the output from pkg_info | grep kde  to a file
like kderm and convert it to a script. You then edit the list into a
series of "pkg_delete -f" for the string of kde*2 ports associated
with KDE-2. If you go to too much trouble, I surely wouldn't install a
pre-version of it. You also have to consider that I can make the port
from source code in about 2 hours. If you want to deal with reasonable
times, you might be able to reinstall the packages or make reinstall
the ports at that point. Just recently I updated libmng and broke
KDE-2.1. I pkg_deleted everything make cleaned it and reinstalled it
from scratch. It turns out the libmng-1.0 breaks qt-2.2.4 and that
inturn breaks KDE-2.1. So, I had to start building at libmng and then
qt-2.2.4 and at that point I could use the KDE-2 meta project to build
everything else. It was about 3 hours before I had a x-desktop back.
My slowest system would have required most of a day to do the same
thing.

Kent

> 
> Thx,
> Ben
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