You know, I had Mandriva 2007, but I still wanted to get the latest packages, especially KDE, the best desktop environment out there. In Mandriva, this can be done easily with a single command:
Once again things didn't go on so well - that's the thing I hate the most about Mandriva betas. As an experienced Mandriva user, I logged into failsafe trying to start KDE from text mode and debug the problem. Here's the important command sequence:
urpmi task-kde
xinit
startkde &
From the error output I found out that the arts package was missing. I installed it and voila, the system booted smoothly :)
Now I can live happily until the official 2008.0 release comes out - hopefully before October :)
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