Faisal,
The others have given good suggestions but there is another way to do it
if you're wanting to use theme manager as you may have used in KDE 1.1.x
in previous versions of Mandrake. To do this you will have to upgrade your
version of KDE to 2.1 which has the Theme Manager in it.
ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake-devel/unsupported/i586/kde2.1beta2
this URL has all the packages you will need to upgrade to KDE2.1beta2.
I've been running this version on both my home machine and my workstation
at work and it's very stable.
ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake-devel/unsupported/i586
There are a few packages that you very well may need along with the other
KDE packages and they are egcs-1.1.2-40mdk and egcs-libstdc++-1.1.2-40mdk.
you can get these two packages from the second address.
*** TO PERFORM THESE UPGRADES THEY MUST BE DONE AS ROOT USER ***
to do the upgrade simply place all the packages downloaded into one
directory by themselves. Run the install test first to make sure all
dependencies are satisfied. Do NOT attempt to force the isntallation. You
will only end up breaking your system. To run the install test use this
command:
rpm -Uvh --test *.rpm
The machine should take off and begin chugging through the packages. If
there is a dependency problem it will return a message to the terminal and
tell you what it is. If there are no problems then it will return to the
command prompt. At this point you should drop out to a console issue the
install command. You REALLY don't want to be running X when you do the
install. Log out of your X-windows session and restart to a console. If
you don't have that option then reboot your machine and at the LILO prompt
type linux 3 which will boot the machine to a console login. At this point
issue the command to install the packages:
rpm -Uvh *.rpm
When it is finished it will come back to a command prompt. There are two
more things left to do before you restart your machine.
rpm --rebuilddb
and
update-menus
That's all there is to it. Now just restart your machine and enjoy
KDE2.1beta2. O and theme manager too. You will find it under "Look N Feel"
in Control Center.
--
Mark
"If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless,"
"Sharing is what makes them powerful."
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, faisal wrote:
> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 07:21:18 -0800
> From: faisal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [expert] themes ?
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> Can anyone tell me where to change my themes in mandrake 7.2 i am using
> kde2.0 ?
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