How I updated to KDE 3.2

Tarjei Knapstad tarjeik at chemcon.no
Mon Feb 16 14:23:45 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 15:11, Charles Howse wrote:
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> On Monday 16 February 2004 07:41 am, Tarjei Knapstad wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 05:19, Charles Howse wrote:
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> >
> > <snip>
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> > > The next thing that didn't work was KMail.
> > > I clicked the KMail icon, and it errored with:
> > > kdeinit cannot start kmail.
> > > I started kmail from a terminal and the actual error is:
> > > cannot find libkdenetwork.so.2
> > > KNode depends on this library, as well.
> > >
> > > I did yum provides libkdenetwork.so.2, and that told me that
> > > kdepim-develop provides libkdenetwork.so.2, so I did yum install
> > > kdepim-develop, and installed kdepim-develop and it's dependencies.
> > > Now KMail is working properly.
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > Surely this has to be a packaging bug? Dynamic libraries that are linked
> > to by applications shouldn't reside in a -devel package. I'd report this
> > to the KDE package maintainers if you're absolutely sure that
> > libkdenetwork.so.2 resides in kdepim-develop (sounds very strange to
> > me...)
> 
> [Charlies at moe charles]$ rpm -ql kdepim-devel
> [snip]
> /usr/lib/libkdenetwork.so.2
> [snip]
> 
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In that case I'd report this as a packaging bug. Dynamic libraries don't
belong in -devel packages (unless they're special builds with debugging
symbols included for instance).

--
Tarjei





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