1. Installing KDE 2 Beta 4, having lots of trouble..
First I tried downloading the sourcecode, QT 2.2.0 compiled with no
problem, I put the entire directory in /opt/kde2/qt-2.2.0, added it to
ld.so.conf, did ldconfig, etc..
Unsquished kdelibs, ./configure --with-qt-dir=/opt/kde2/qt-2.2.0
--with-qt-libraries=/opt/kde2/qt-2.2.0/lib
--with-qt-includes=/opt/kde2/qt-2.2.0/includes
(might have some typos there, ignore that :)
Make failed for various things, mainly because it kept trying to use
/usr/lib/ qt libraries!
So I gave up after a while, and downloaded the Red Hat RPMs from the
KDE2 binary install page link. Downloaded everything, installed it all
(including downloading Mesa 3.3.5, a few other dependancies) and it
wouldn't start up. Running xinit, then startkde from the xterm I
noticed quite a few QT lib "Unknown symbols" and some various other
errors, sometimes it'd mostly start, sometimes it'd just sit there at
the White screen (of death, it seems to be named).
So I decided to give up for the night, started up X.. Prefdm, which is
linked to /usr/bin/kdm, no longer works.. Turns out, NONE of my KDE 1.2
rpms are installed.. *sobs* I assume that I could force install them
and all would be okay.. but while I'm down this road, I might as well
continue.
So I decided perhaps now that the rpms are installed, including devel
stuff, I can compile the tarballs. Well, the kdelibs compiled okay, but
I had to copy some /opt/kde2/lib/*.la files to /usr/lib. And then
kdebase I linked some libraries in /opt/kde2/lib to /usr/lib because it
kept looking for them there.
So far, kdelibs installed and kdebase is still compiling. But I
currently can't select "Active desktop borders" so I have to click on
the pager or CTRL F1, etc.. And can't seem to find where to edit the
window title buttons, I'm used to the close being on the righthand side.
Anyone have ideas why I've had so much trouble?
--
Walter Francis
http://theblackmoor.net Powered by Red Hat Linux 6.x
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