KDE 2.2.2 RPM's for RH 7.2

[JimH]

Yea! KDE 2.2.2 has arrived! ;D

kdelibs-2.2.2 is built against a newer libxslt, I had to download libxml2-2.4.10-2 and libxslt-1.0.7-4 from rawhide to satisfy the dependency. I recompiled the source rpms for libxml2-2.4.10-2 and libxslt-1.0.7-4, I didn't install the binary rpm's from rawhide. The binary rpm's from rawhide should work, but I usually don't recommend using binary rpm's from rawhide.

Recompiling the source rpm's for libxml2-2.4.10-2 and libxslt-1.0.7-4 is very easy. The new rpm's are placed in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386

rpm --rebuild libxml2-2.4.10-2.src.rpm
Install the new libxml2 rpm's
rpm --rebuild libxslt-1.0.7-4.src.rpm
install the new libxslt rpm's

cd into the directory where you downloaded KDE 2.2.2 and:

rpm -Fvh *.rpm

and you are done.

Seem's to be working great so far. :-)

Jim H

[johnqpublic]

Yea,I installed them on my SuSE boxen yesterday!

[JimH]

The KDE mirrors have been updated it should no longer be necessary to get libxml2 and libxslt from rawhide. They are on the KDE mirrors now.

Jim H

[Bogler]

I take it that kde 2.2.2 is more recent than the default kde that comes with RH 7.2.

The changes between 7.1 and 7.2 are major so i would be interested in seeing the latest release

Thanks

Bog

[JimH]

I take it that kde 2.2.2 is more recent than the default kde that comes with RH 7.2.

The changes between 7.1 and 7.2 are major so i would be interested in seeing the latest release

Thanks

Bog

Red Hat has released an official update to KDE 2.2.2 for 7.2. You might want to take a look at the list of updates for 7.2, It is LONG!

Did you upgrade to 7.2?

Jim H

[Bogler]

Yeah, i managed to upgrade no probs but still running the 2.4.2-2 kernel.

Playing with the kde environment at the moment.

Regards

Bogler