[wellylug] Kivio installation

[Bret Comstock Waldow]

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:06, KvN wrote:
> Ladies/Gentlemen,
>
> I am having trouble with the installation of koffice-1.4.1 and I am
> wanting to install the upgrade to be able to use kivio-1.4.1 on the
> fedora core 2 operating system I am running.
>
> I do have access to an internet connection, but not on the pc that I
> am currently running the linux software on.

Most of what I can glean from your message is that you are having trouble.

You did mention "fedora core 2", "koffice", and "kivio".  In the past I ran 
SuSE and Red Hat, so I have some experience with rpm based distros, so I'll 
make some guesses and reply to those.

First, is it possible to take the disk from the computer you want to upgrade 
and install it into the computer that's connected to the Internet and do the 
upgrade that way?

The standard way to upgrade a package is (used to be?) to find an rpm built 
around the updated software and install that with "rpm -i <packagename>".  
There are other options besides '-i' for rpm, and you should read about them 
and understand them and ask specific questions based on what you read.  
Someone could then help with that.

There are resources on the web for locating rpm packages, and I only know of a 
few of them, as I don't use rpm packages any more.  Try www.rpmfind.net or 
one of it's mirrors.  Try googling 'koffice rpm' or 'kivio rpm' or 'fedora 
core 2 rpm' and track down an rpm archive that matches what you are after.  
Get experience tracking things down on the web, learning how to phrase 
searches.  Then download the package, transfer it to the machine you want to 
install it on, and use the command above.

By using the rpm package, you at least get some benefit from the information 
contained therein about what else might need to be upgraded to work with the 
newer version of the software you want, but my experience was that this is 
not perfect, and in fact, that's why I don't use rpm based distros anymore - 
hence my lack of current knowledge about them.

There are tools like 'yum' and a port of 'apt-get' to rpm systems to allow 
them to make up for these shortfalls, but I just decided to switch to the 
distro that developed the 'apt' software in the first place, so I'm not 
really knowledgeable about 'yum' et al.  In particular, I can't tell you how 
to make it work when the system using it isn't connected to the Internet, and 
hence can't contact the repositories.

But maybe someone else can.

This should get you started, and if your concern is about something else, then 
you can write back with details about what your concern is - that is much 
more likely to provoke a response than a general statement that you are 
having trouble.  Everyone is having trouble.

And I recommend you be stubborn - not with other users - but with your own 
research.  Don't give up until you know why you are giving up.  As well, if 
you haven't tried, people aren't as likely to reply.

Cheers,
Bret