[plug] KDE 2.2 install problem

[Aunty Jack]

G'day everyone

This is a bit long-winded, but please hang in till the end . . .

I'm runnung a standard RedHat 7.1 (off the APC cover cdrom) On 25th August i
downloaded the brand new all singing all dancing kde-2.2 packaged as rpm's
for RedHat 7.x. There were 36 files:

-rw-rw-r--    1 aunty    aunty      869355 Aug 25 13:13 arts-2.2-5.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 aunty    aunty      105213 Aug 25 13:14 kdeaddons-kate-2.2-2.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 aunty    aunty      102251 Aug 25 13:15 kdeaddons-kicker-2.2-2.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 aunty    aunty       12841 Aug 25 13:15 kdeaddons-knewsticker-2.2-2.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 aunty    aunty      203695 Aug 25 13:16 kdeaddons-konqueror-2.2-2.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 aunty    aunty      250351 Aug 25 13:18 kdeaddons-noatun-2.2-2.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 aunty    aunty     1198009 Aug 25 13:24 kdeadmin-2.2-3.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 aunty    aunty     4724719 Aug 25 13:49 kdeartwork-2.2-1.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 aunty    aunty      327560 Aug 25 13:50 kdeartwork-locolor-2.2-1.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 aunty    aunty    16584901 Aug 25 15:16 kdebase-2.2-3.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 aunty    aunty       72738 Aug 25 15:17 kdebase-devel-2.2-3.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 aunty    aunty       49816 Aug 25 15:17 kdebindings-2.2-2.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 aunty    aunty        8308 Aug 25 15:17 kdebindings-devel-2.2-2.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 aunty    aunty       43305 Aug 25 15:17 kdebindings-kmozilla-2.2-2.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 aunty    aunty       86985 Aug 25 15:18 kdebindings-perl-2.2-2.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 aunty    aunty       47904 Aug 25 15:19 kdebindings-python-2.2-2.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 aunty    aunty     9627388 Aug 25 16:08 kdegames-2.2-1.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 aunty    aunty     1840395 Aug 25 16:18 kdegraphics-2.2-1.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 aunty    aunty       18242 Aug 25 16:18 kdegraphics-devel-2.2-1.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 aunty    aunty     8437385 Aug 25 17:02 kdelibs-2.2-5.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 aunty    aunty     3192992 Aug 25 17:18 kdelibs-devel-2.2-5.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 aunty    aunty      186078 Aug 25 17:19 kdelibs-sound-2.2-5.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 aunty    aunty      187685 Aug 25 17:20 kdelibs-sound-devel-2.2-5.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 aunty    aunty     5927016 Aug 25 17:50 kdemultimedia-2.2-3.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 aunty    aunty      104461 Aug 25 17:51 kdemultimedia-devel-2.2-3.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 aunty    aunty     4037550 Aug 25 18:12 kdenetwork-2.2-3.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 aunty    aunty      517547 Aug 25 18:15 kdenetwork-ppp-2.2-3.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 aunty    aunty     1286409 Aug 25 18:22 kdepim-2.2-1.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 aunty    aunty       87797 Aug 25 18:22 kdepim-cellphone-2.2-1.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 aunty    aunty       58391 Aug 25 18:23 kdepim-devel-2.2-1.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 aunty    aunty      781713 Aug 25 18:27 kdepim-pilot-2.2-1.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 aunty    aunty     1820444 Aug 25 18:37 kdesdk-2.2-1.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 aunty    aunty       23088 Aug 25 18:38 kdesdk-devel-2.2-1.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 aunty    aunty     1054541 Aug 25 18:43 kdetoys-2.2-1.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 aunty    aunty     2256358 Aug 25 18:56 kdeutils-2.2-2.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 aunty    aunty     4787768 Aug 25 19:21 kdevelop-2.0-1.i386.rpm

Changing to root i ran:
	rpm -ivh /home/aunty/download/kde-2.2/*.rpm

and got the following errors:

error: failed dependencies:
        libfam.so.0   is needed by kdeaddons-kate-2.2-2
        libfam.so.0   is needed by kdeaddons-konqueror-2.2-2
        libfam.so.0   is needed by kdeaddons-noatun-2.2-2
        libSDL-1.2.so.0   is needed by kdeaddons-noatun-2.2-2
        libfam.so.0   is needed by kdeadmin-2.2-3
        librpm-4.0.3.so   is needed by kdeadmin-2.2-3
        librpmbuild-4.0.3.so   is needed by kdeadmin-2.2-3
        librpmdb-4.0.3.so   is needed by kdeadmin-2.2-3
        librpmio-4.0.3.so   is needed by kdeadmin-2.2-3
        libxml2 >= 2.3.5 is needed by kdebase-2.2-3
        libfam.so.0   is needed by kdebase-2.2-3
        libcrypto.so.2   is needed by kdebase-2.2-3
        libssl.so.2   is needed by kdebase-2.2-3
        libfam.so.0   is needed by kdebindings-2.2-2
        libfam.so.0   is needed by kdebindings-kmozilla-2.2-2
        python2 >= 2.1 is needed by kdebindings-python-2.2-2
        libfam.so.0   is needed by kdegames-2.2-1
        libfam.so.0   is needed by kdegraphics-2.2-1
        libfam.so.0   is needed by kdelibs-2.2-5
        libxml2.so.2   is needed by kdelibs-2.2-5
        libxslt.so.1   is needed by kdelibs-2.2-5
        libpcreposix.so.0   is needed by kdelibs-2.2-5
        libpcre.so.0   is needed by kdelibs-2.2-5
        pcre-devel is needed by kdelibs-devel-2.2-5
        libfam.so.0   is needed by kdelibs-sound-2.2-5
        libfam.so.0   is needed by kdemultimedia-2.2-3
        libfam.so.0   is needed by kdenetwork-2.2-3
        libfam.so.0   is needed by kdepim-2.2-1
        libfam.so.0   is needed by kdepim-cellphone-2.2-1
        libfam.so.0   is needed by kdepim-pilot-2.2-1
        libfam.so.0   is needed by kdesdk-2.2-1
        libfam.so.0   is needed by kdetoys-2.2-1
        libfam.so.0   is needed by kdeutils-2.2-2
        libfam.so.0   is needed by kdevelop-2.0-1

Assuming that rpm had simply not bothered to exhaustively (recursively ?)
untangle all the dependencies for the whole list of files, i thought ". .
hmmm .. everything's supposed to be there. i'll force the issue and see
what happens . ." and ran:
	cd /home/aunty/download/kde-2.2
	rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps *.rpm

Of course no errors this time!! Smug and a little apprehensively, i Alt-F1
back to aunty, then ran startx. The kdm starts and then an error box
containing the following message appeared:

"There was an error setting up inter-process communications for KDE. The
message returned by the system was:

Could not read network connection list.
/home/aunty/.DCOPserver_delilah_:0

Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running!"

. . . and so i clicked the "ok" button underneath it, and she exited
back out of X. The following errors were left on the console:

kdeinit: error while loading shared libraries: libfam.so.0: cannot load
shared object file: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/kdeinit: error while loading shared libraries: libfam.so.0: cannot
load shared object file: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/kdeinit: error while loading shared libraries: libfam.so.0: cannot
load shared object file: No such file or directory
Could not register with DCOPServer. Aborting.
connect() failed: : No such file or directory

waiting for X server to shut down

There is no sign of any "libfam" files in /lib and running:

	"find / libfam*"       and. . .
	"ps -aux|grep dcop"    didn't turn up anything.

i'm lost now. Where did i go wrong, and what to do next ??

. . to the tune of a well known Dire Straits song . ." I want my, I want my,
I want my KDE . . ."

Aunty.