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wt

Member

From: Poland

Registered: 2006-01-17

Posts: 14

KDE wants to install along with old Xorg

Hi,
I installed X6.8.2 on base 0.7.1, then upgraded to X7 from testing. Changed the paths and everything works fine. But when i want to install KDE, it says i have to download X6.8.2 again, and crashes when checking file conflicts -
showing messages like "lib_gl.so is already present".
Am I doing sth wrong?   Please help  :?

ps. hwd -x also displays that "X server not available", despite it generated the xorg.conf file just before upgrading to 7...

pressh

Developer/TU

From: Netherlands

Registered: 2005-08-14

Posts: 1,719

Re: KDE wants to install along with old Xorg

hwd -x is yet incompatible with modular xorg as file locations have been changed. There is a thread about that already. That will probably resolved when modular xorg moves to current.

For your problem with having xorg downgraded when installing kde, you'll have to re-enable testing branch for installing kde. Kde from testing is compiled against modular xorg.

wt

Member

From: Poland

Registered: 2006-01-17

Posts: 14

Re: KDE wants to install along with old Xorg

ok, thank you. So I should try "kdebase" from testing? why is the difference in names, KDE is "kde" in current and "kdebase" in testing  :?

pressh

Developer/TU

From: Netherlands

Registered: 2005-08-14

Posts: 1,719

Re: KDE wants to install along with old Xorg

kde is the group name of all kde packages: kdebase, kdemultimedia, etc. This is the same for current as for testing.
So after enabling testing, 'pacman -Sy kde' will do the trick

wt

Member

From: Poland

Registered: 2006-01-17

Posts: 14

Re: KDE wants to install along with old Xorg

thank you very much forgot about  -Sy. I tried pacman -S testing/kde.
Now it's downloading, thx