KDE 4.1.1 Upadate Checkerboard Problem

**swamp_yankee** · 11-Sep-2008, 05:34

Goemon,

Did you forces an update of all the KDE4 packages or did you just rename the kde and kde4 folders?

Benjamin_Xiao, thanks very much for the tip on updating an entire group of packages. I knew there had to be a simpler method!

**Goemon** · 11-Sep-2008, 13:26

Both, I thought.

I'll give it another go...

**Goemon** · 12-Sep-2008, 04:44

Got i going OK on a retry.

For reference, I did the following:

1) booted into a console session
2) ren/del the .kde & .kde4 dirs in home
3) Forced a refresh for all KDE4 pacakges using the command-line version of YAST (a real life-saver - ALWAYS make sure you install it...)
4) Started a KDE4 session (making sure NOT to start a KDE3 session)

**reggler** · 15-Sep-2008, 23:09

Originally Posted by Benjamin_Xiao

When you filter for kde 4 packages, you can go to packages->all packages in this list->upgrade if newer version available. You don't need to manually check each icon.

This does not work for me, get several conflicts cause there's no libqt4 >= 4.1.1 available...

oh man, this is crappy

**caf4926** · 15-Sep-2008, 23:20

Add the qt4 build service repo
Index of /repositories/KDE:/Qt44/openSUSE_11.0
run updates to that
now try kde4.1

**edke** · 16-Sep-2008, 01:55

Originally Posted by caf4926

Add the qt4 build service repo
Index of /repositories/KDE:/Qt44/openSUSE_11.0
run updates to that
now try kde4.1

Confirmed, after adding this repo latest update was without conflicts and KDE4.1 is working as it suposed to. Only I lost all panels, looks like I logout from broken session and config with no panels was saved

**RedDwarf** · 16-Sep-2008, 02:51

Originally Posted by caf4926

Add the qt4 build service repo
Index of /repositories/KDE:/Qt44/openSUSE_11.0

To avoid problems the repo that should be added is KDE:Qt, not KDE:Qt44

Code:

$ osc meta prj KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop
<project name="KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop">                
  <title>KDE 4.1.x Packages</title>                      
  <description>This project contains the KDE version currently developed in Factory for the next openSUSE release. It is supposed to be always useable and mostly bugfree. We gladly accept bugreports and enhancement requests, especially if those are not reproduceable with KDE:KDE4:STABLE:Desktop</description>                        
  <person role="maintainer" userid="wstephenson"/>                                                             
  <person role="maintainer" userid="Beineri"/>
  <person role="maintainer" userid="dirkmueller"/>
  <person role="maintainer" userid="coolo"/>
  <person role="maintainer" userid="jpr"/>
  <person role="maintainer" userid="llunak"/>
  <person role="bugowner" userid="dirkmueller"/>
  <debuginfo>
<enable repository='openSUSE_11.0'/>
<enable repository='openSUSE_Factory'/>
  </debuginfo>
  <repository name="openSUSE_10.3">
    <path repository="openSUSE_10.3" project="KDE:Qt"/>
    <arch>i586</arch>
    <arch>x86_64</arch>
  </repository>
  <repository name="openSUSE_11.0">
    <path repository="openSUSE_11.0" project="KDE:Qt"/>
    <arch>i586</arch>
    <arch>x86_64</arch>
    <arch>ppc</arch>
    <arch>ppc64</arch>
  </repository>
  <repository name="openSUSE_Factory">
    <path repository="standard" project="openSUSE:Factory"/>
    <arch>i586</arch>
    <arch>x86_64</arch>
    <arch>ppc</arch>
    <arch>ppc64</arch>
  </repository>
  <repository name="SLE_10">
    <path repository="SLE_10" project="devel:tools:building"/>
    <path repository="standard" project="SUSE:SLE-10:SP2:SDK"/>
    <path repository="SLE_10" project="home:dirkmueller:playground:kde4"/>
    <arch>i586</arch>
    <arch>x86_64</arch>
  </repository>
</project>

**thejaswihr** · 16-Sep-2008, 09:42

Ok guys, here is the deal.
The recent update of KDE-4.1 from KDE4:Factory did not have all the dependencies for all the packages. What was missing was libqt4-4.1.1 package. Due to this missing dependency, kde4base, kdebase4-runtime and some plasma theme packages were not upgraded. So most of the packages were upgraded but not all. Due to this incosistency we had to face the "checker-board". (We can coin it as a term

)
To resolve this issue, just add the QT4 build service repo to your repository list.

Code:

sudo zypper ar "http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Qt44/openSUSE_11.0/" "KDE:Qt"
sudo zypper refresh

Once thats done, update all the packages

Code:

sudo zypper up -t package
sudo zypper dup

Thats it. Restart your system and you should have your favourite KDE4 back with all its charm

.

There is *no need* to delete or move ~/.kde4 or ~/.kde and loose all your settings. There is also *no need* to reinstall all the KDE4 packages.

- Thejaswi Raya

**reggler** · 16-Sep-2008, 11:23

Well I got myself logged back into "normal" kde now but my problem is i seem to have lost certain info from the .kde folder but it's weird in kontact e.g. the folders are all there but no content the mails are gone. any explanation for this? also my kde 4 settings seem to be gone mostly... like wall paper but autostart seems to be correct now... i have no cluewhat'as going on.... especially the gone kontact contents are bad can i get it back somehow?

Even the contacts are still there in Kontact but the mails are gone.... huh???

**sosaudio1** · 16-Sep-2008, 11:33

So maybe one day I will learn to listen to KDE and YaST when the dependency issues jump out at me...LOL I sat there for a good uh...30 seconds and then say....ehh what the heck...that'll teach me LOL...

OK but on the flip side of this, is there a way we could get the pkg managers to set up a dependency to where when KDE Runtime is not going to be updated it throws a flag?

One more question....

Resolve the repo addy. Is it QT44 or is it KDE:QT?

If there are two we need to know the correct one before delving into a possible dependecncy hell.

I love openSuse!!!!!

L8R
Rich