Paul Mellors <paul.mellors@ntlworld.com> asks:
> Just download kde 2.1.1 (not much fun on a 33.6 modem :) )
> does anyone know the correct order that you install them so i dont get the
> descrepancies??
I've never tried it, but there are some basic hints available on the
Linux From Scratch <http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/> web site, that
may help you, but may also be out of date, not take account of your
distribution's directory layout, and wont avoid you having to read
lots of README files! I include a recent copy (do check for latest
though) below:
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TITLE: KDE installation abridged
LFS VERSION: any
AUTHOR: Simon Perreault <nomis80@videotron.ca>
SYNOPSIS:
Since KDE is very easy to install, but because this has been requested countless times, this is a (very) abridged KDE installation hint.
HINT:
KDE, contrary to GNOME, is very easy to install. This is what you have to do,
it should be enough to get you started.
First, begin by installing which, as some KDE apps depend on it.
Then you have to install these libraries:
zlib
libpng
libmng
lcms (www.littlecms.com)
libjpeg
libtiff
libungif
Be sure to read the "./configure --help" for each of those to find if the
package needs a special option to be built shared. If it installs .so files,
you're on the right track.
Get qt from ftp.trolltech.com, and compile it with the "-gif -system-libpng
-system-zlib -system-libmng -system-jpeg" configure switches. Starting with
qt-2.3.0, you can use the -xft option to enable font anti-aliasing if your X
server supports the RENDER extension. You can recompile qt later with the -kde
switch to enable some thingies in qt designer if you're a programmer. If the
configure script complains about some missing libraries, it means you installed
a library badly. Install it correctly. Also, qt has no "make install" directive.
You just copy the whole source tree (when it is compiled) to /usr, for example.
All you need in there is the bin, lib, and include directories. You can delete
the rest if you're not a programmer, it'll save you some space.
Then you simply grab the latest source from ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable.
You need at least the kdesupport, kdelibs, and kdebase packages, the rest is
optional. You must compile kdesupport first, kdelibs second, and then kdebase
third. Afterwards you can compile the rest in any order.
You will probably hit a bug where something tries to link with libshadow.so.
This doesn't exist, just link the actual libshadow.so.<version number> to
libshadow.so, run ldconfig, and run make again. I don't know why we shouldn't do
this.
If you want to use kdm, add a case to /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession that looks like
this:
KDE)
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/kde/bin
exec /usr/kde/bin/startkde
;;
Also, edit $KDEDIR/share/config/kdmrc to reflect the available sessions. In
inittab, make a line that starts kdm with the -nodaemon switch on (suggested)
runlevel 5, with the "once" way of executing it.
This is just a quick hint to fill a gap, if someone wants to make a more exact
or detailed one, feel free to do so.
PS. If you want to know why my LFS system is better than yours, it is because I
put kmatrix.kss on kdm's background. ;)
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Have fun!
Ted
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