Paul, I do not use Mandrake, so ***my answer could be completely wrong***, bu= t I think you may need to: 1 uninstall KDE 1.1, 2 install or reinstall all the Mandrake things that Mandrake QT 2.2.1 a= nd KDE 2.0 RPMs need, 3 reinstall QT 2.2.1 RPMs, 4 reinstall KDE 2.0 RPMs and finally: 5 install KDE 1.1 RPMs compatibility library. ***Just a guess***. I would check with a few other people before starti= ng all this re-installation, but it may be worthwhile having a good look around RPMFIND to see if you can understand the dependencies. What follows is the Mandrake part of a posting I made recently. You can= use the links to html files below to chase dependencies. Just chase the lin= ks looking for Mandrake RPMs which you don't have or which are newer than those you do have. Best regards Most of the URLs below refer to RPMFIND. There may be more up-to-date R= PMs available elsewhere. *** QT *** An example from QT 2.2.1: libqt.so.2 Mandrake 7.2: http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/mandrake//Mandrake/7.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/= /qt2-2.2.1-3mdk.i586.html Package name qt2; Installs libqt as: /usr/lib/libqt.so.2 /usr/lib/libqt.so.2.2.1 /usr/lib/libqt2.so.2.2 /usr/lib/qt2/lib/libqt.so.2 /usr/lib/qt2/lib/libqt.so.2.2 /usr/lib/qt2/lib/libqt.so.2.2.1 *** KDE *** An example from KDE 2.0: libkdecore.so.3: http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/libkdecore.so.3.html Here: Mandrake and Red Hat use the same package name for KDE 1.1.2 and = KDE 2.0 libs and install both into /usr/lib; Mandrake compensates for using= /usr/lib by installing a KDE1 compatibility library into /usr/lib/kde1-compat/lib; Mandrake 7.2: http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/mandrake/Mandrake/7.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/k= delibs-2.0-5mdk.i586.html Package name kdelibs; Installs libkdecore as: /usr/lib/libkdecore.la /usr/lib/libkdecore.so /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.3 /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.3.0.0 Compare Mandrake 7.2 compatability library install including libkdecore.so.2: http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/mandrake/Mandrake/7.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/k= de1-compat-1.1.2-7mdk.i586.html Package name kde1-compat; Installs libkdecore as: /usr/lib/kde1-compat/lib/libkdecore.so.2 /usr/lib/kde1-compat/lib/libkdecore.so.2.0.0 Compare Mandrake 7.1 installation of KDE 1.1.2 including libkdecore.so.= 2: http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/mandrake/7.1/Mandrake/RPMS/kdelibs-1.1.2-1= 8mdk.i586.html Package name kdelibs; Installs libkdecore as: /usr/lib/libkdecore.la /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.2 /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.2.0.0 *** OTHER *** For other packages which are dependencies, the main difference seems to= be where to find the RPM: Example: libmng.so.0 COL 2.4: http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/kde/stable/2.0/distribution/rpm/COL-2.4/su= pport/libmng-0.9.2-2.i386.html Mandrake: (Can't find Mandrake RPMs containing libmng.so.0 on RPMFIND o= r Mandrake Cooker at http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/cookerdevel.php3) Red Hat RawHide 1.0: http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/rawhide/1.0/i386//RedHat/RPMS//libmng-0.9.= 2-1.i386.html SuSE 7.0: Official URL: ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/KDE2/update_for_7.0/libs/libmng.rpm http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/kde/stable/2.0/distribution/rpm/SuSE/7.0-i= 386/libs/libmng-0.9.2-5.i386.html = =20 "Paul Tap" = =20 Sent by: To: KDE User= List =20 kde-user-request@lists.netcentral.n =20 et cc: = =20 Subject: KDE= 2 on Mandrake 7.1 =20 = =20 05/11/2000 07:28 AM = =20 Please respond to kde-user = =20 = =20 = =20 Hi, sorry for my question if you have answered it yet but I didnt' fin= d the history of this mailing list (did it exist?). I'm a newbie on Linux platform (and french, sorry for my poor english)= . I wanted to upgrade MDK 7.1 with KDE2. Then I have downloaded the mdk's = rpm and read carefully the FAQ. Then I upgraded the 7.2 mdk rpm: menu, Mandrake_desk, OpenSSL, qt2 and pam. Well.... The installation was a nightmare :-) A lot of bad dependancie= s... I forced it (without uninstall KDE1.1 :-( Now I have a bad situation: Part of KDE2 but the kdebase2.0 is impossible to install (even uninstalling kdebase1.1). I have the message: "File /usr/share/apps/kdm/pics/users: cpio: unlink failed mauvais descripteur= de fichiers." (i use rpm -U --nodeps .... ) Grrrrrrr ..... Can you help me please ? I'm in a bad situation, for example, kpackage doesn't work now, I lost= my personal desk .... Thank you for the newbie :-) Bye Paul = -- Send posts to: kde-user@lists.netcentral.net Send all commands to: kde-user-request@lists.netcentral.net Put your command in the SUBJECT of the message: "subscribe", "unsubscribe", "set digest on", or "set digest off" All kde mailing lists are archived at http://lists.kde.org ********************************************************************** This list is from your pals at NetCentral