installing kde 3.0

[Dan Burcaw]

Well, this would happen if you downloaded the rpms into like
your toplevel home directory.  I suggest making a 'kde3' directory
in your home directory; put all the kde3 rpms there.

Then, cd kde3/ ; rpm --replacefiles -ivh *

Or, you could try *.rpm instead of *
(what is happening for you is the * (wildcard) is picking up
a "filename" that is a directory and trying to install it as if
it were an rpm.  This isn't possible and thus rpm bombs)


On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 20:33, robert nuzum wrote:
> Following the "how-to" I use  the command "rpm --replacefiles -i *" I get the
>  error: read failed: Is a directory (21). I have also tried to install the 
> packages via package manager but run into the dependencies morass.   
> I am using  YDL 2.2 on a dv 400 iMac. 
> I'm new at this and have  forgotten what I once knew about Linux and dealing  
> with the dependencies.
> Help appreciated in advance.
> Bob 
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