Upgrade Hell!

[elfs]

Under the heading of increadibly freaking stupid, file this. At work, I had one minor bug related to Safari, which is the browser that ships with Mac OS X. Not having a Mac myself, I dug around and discovered that the Unix windowing toolkit KDE 3.2 ships with Konqueror, the browser on which Safari is based (much the same way that Netscape is based on Mozilla), and Konqueror 3.2 even has a javascript debugging tool.

Unfortunately, RedHat only supplied KDE 3.1. Ah, but Fedora 2 ships with KDE 3.2. So in I go to the (blessedly, local) Fedora 2 tree and tell the installer, "install konqueror and all of its dependencies."

This is a bad move. The Fedora version depends on certain qualities in very low-level libraries like libc. Everything goes to Hell. And so, here it is, 9:15 pm, and I am just now gathering the capability to fix and check in the correct versions of my code, and go home.

When will I learn? Build from scratch, or don't mess with the OS.

Comments

[lazarus834.livejournal.com]

You might want to try mozilla firefox - install that plus the "web developer" plugin and you'll get a whole mess of wonderful javascript tools, as well as other things. I like the idea of using a browser which is completely OS independent, so I can switch to other machines more easily.

Now, if only Thunderbird would support maildir format, then I could use that instead of Kmail!! Do you know of a platform-independent GUI e-mail client that works with maildirs?