KDE 4.1.1 Upadate Checkerboard Problem

[mingus725]

Originally Posted by Sagemta

OK,
I have the QT repos installed not the QT44.
So for best results should I install QT44 alongside the QT?

Apparently for some of us the QT repo version satisfied the dependency, for others (like myself) the QT44. Like 4.1 Factory Desktop, all the packages in these repos are frequently changing. For now, whatever solves the problem should be what you use. However, the need to have added either one of these repo's should be gone soon, i.e., the dependency will be satisfied when the package is updated in 4.1 Factory Desktop.

[freedguy]

Awesome guys! It works

Those having the same problem just follow post #18.

[mingus725]

This is of note on the question of which repo . . . [opensuse-kde] IMPORTANT: KDE:KDE4:Factory Desktop for 11.0 users

[Sagemta]

Thanks mingus, I'll keep QT by itself I guess you'll be keeping QT44. Also, thanks for the link in your last post.
It'll be a good day when we won't have so many & such confusing repos.

[RedDwarf]

KDE:Qt is the only correct one, that was made clear with the "osc meta prj KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop" output.

To create the packages from KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop the source code is compiled using the libraries from KDE:Qt, no KDE:Qt44. And if you build using library A and then run using library B you never can be sure of the results.

Also:

$ osc meta prj KDE:Qt | grep description
  <description>This project provides the Qt 4.x.x version that is currently being considered most stable whilebeing reasonably recent. It is a good target to _aggregate or to build against if your particular project or application needs a newer version of Qt. Users are recommended to add this repository if they want to update their Qt.</description>
$ osc meta prj KDE:Qt44 | grep description
  <description>This repository contains Qt 4.4.x</description>

KDE:Qt has an updated but somehow stable Qt. KDE:Qt44... well, isn't specified.

If someone still has problems after adding KDE:Qt then there is *another* problem. A good bug report would make sense.

The good news are that in the future we will not have this problem -> Duncan Mac-Vicar P. » Blog Archive » Introducing ZYpp services

[Paganel75]

Deleted everything that had "KDE4" in its name, via YaST.

Tried then to install everything that had "KDE4.1" in its name; the answer was : nothing.

Tried to reinstall KDE4 : got a lot of YaST messages telling me that something is missing and leaving only one option open for each of the 80 packages or do : do not install (to click one by one, which promised to be a rather long task).

So I aborted YaST operation and am back to KDE3.5, and I suppose I shall have to stick to it for a while

[mingus725]

The KDE 4 packages need to be managed as a set. Filtering on the Factory KDE 4.1 Desktop (and Extras and Community, if using those, too) repository(ies) and "updating all in this list" will keep the packages synchronized.

[Paganel75]

Originally Posted by mingus725

The KDE 4 packages need to be managed as a set. Filtering on the Factory KDE 4.1 Desktop (and Extras and Community, if using those, too) repository(ies) and "updating all in this list" will keep the packages synchronized.

Er... Filtering what and how on the "Factory KDE 4.1 Desktop" ???

Do I just have to replace in my repository list the /repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.0/ by /repositories/KDE:/KDE4.1:/Factory:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.0/ ?

Or is it not exactly as simple ?

21:14 : Hmm... I guess it is not : /repositories/KDE:/KDE4.1:/Factory:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.0/ : "Unable to find repository"

[Paganel75]

21:22 : Browsing around in download.opensuse.org, I find this which seems to be interesting :

Index of /repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/STABLE:/Community

Unfortunately, it seems to be empty as well...

[mingus725]

@Paganel -

These repositories are here KDE/Repositories - openSUSE. These are not the Stable or Unstable repo's; note that these are all mutually exclusive. You still need the oss and non-oss repo's of course. And for the checkerboard glitch (until the Qt libraries are updated in Factory), the KDE:Qt repo.

In YaST Software Management you filter with the, er, Filter pull-down to the upper left. One of the choices is repositories. Click on '11.0 Factory 4.1 Desktop' and you'll see all the packages in the base KDE 4.1.x. Right-click anywhere in the list opens a context-menu, with the choice to update all in the list (that are already installed) for which there is a newer version available. Occasionally there will be a minor dependency problem which prevents updating some packages (this repo is not static, it is a constant work-in-progress). And once at least, the dependency was missed altogether and was not satisfiable from this repo anyway, i.e., the checkerboard problem here.

That's how it's done.