Borsenkow, I reached to have both kde runing but after did some things: That was I did
A) Download de new packages from www.kde.org (April the 7th)in a specific directory B) cd <kde3 download directory> D) urpmi unixODBC E) urpmi postgresql F) urpmi MySQL G) rpm -ivh *rpm: still some deps; the more problematic MySQL-devel, not present in the 8.2 cds (just need for some devel file); I had to download it from rpmfind.net. G') with the dependences solved, rpm -ivh *rpm H)start Xtart as user, and selec 11 KDE (the call for KDE3); close the KDE3. I)edit /home/<user>/.kde3/share/config/kpersonalizerrc and write with a text editor or mc: [General] FirstLogin=false and save that. J)copy the /home/<user>/Desktop to /Desktop_KD3 K) Start again KDE3 and change the desktop path in KDEcontrolcenter--LookNFeel--Desktop--Path to the /Desktop_KDE3 directory; also change the Trash path to that of the Desktop_KDE3 directory. Close Kde3 L) as root edit the /etc/initab file and put the last line in this way: x:5:respawn:/opt/kde3/bin/kdm -nodaemon If you use kdm to login, you will have the kdm from kde3 release M) And the most importante change, edit the /etc/profile.d/kde3.sh file and change the first line from: export PATH="/opt/kde3/bin:$PATH" to: export PATH="$PATH:/opt/kde3/bin" Save it. N) Now you need restart the computer (probably there is a way to activate all these changes without reboot, but I am a newbie in kde and I have not idea :-() O) Now you will have both, kde2.2 and kde3, runing together without major problems. Ah!, if you use the Spanish language file, you will not have the Euro symbol in the kde applications. THIS IS A BUG recently solved for kde2.2 in Mandrake 8.2, but need to be solved in kde3. Good luck Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain)
