Re: [Evolution] Red-Carpet/XD2/conflict with Existing Gnome Desktop?

[Ow Mun Heng <Ow Mun Heng wdc com>]

On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 12:37, Mark Gordon wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 12:23 -0700, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > Guys,
> >
> > Currently I'm using Gnome 2.4 on RH9. This was previously obtained from
> > nyquist rpms. However, he stopped supporting RH9 some time ago. 
> > I would like to know.
> >
> >      1. If I were to install XD2, will it currupt my current install?
> >         Will it overwrite it, or will it just install it into a
> >         different path?
> >      2. Can I upgrade say Evolution (I'm on 1.4.5) to 1.4.6 only and not
> >         have everything else screwed up?
>
> No idea.  Haven't tried installing over nyquist.  It shouldn't "corrupt"
> anything, so long as you don't run "rpm -Uvh --evil" or its equivalents
> (and as long as post(un)install scripts don't fail).  Bear in mind that
> XD2 is Gnome 2.2, so simple "rpm -Uvh" or its equivalent simply wouldn't
> work.  The XD2 installer will warn you if it needs to uninstall any
> packages, and it will presumably downgrade many of them if you run it.

There is such an option as --evil?? hehe
But what I normally do is just that.. rpm -Uvh *rpm

> An Evo install is certainly simpler and is less likely to cause problems
> for you.
It does need to upgrade some stuffs though.. But speaking of which, it
seems that red-carpet will not show me the evo 1.4.6 stuffs. It must've
detected my 1.4.5, and only offering me the option of upgrading to
evo-devel-1.4.6 and evo-pilot-1.4.6

So...

Long story cut short. I'm definately gonna skip item 1. Item 2, well,
I'm really afraid of screwing things up. 

Darn it. I'm in a rock and a hard place.
> -Mark Gordon
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