Tom Brinkman wrote:
> On Monday 05 March 2001 12:47 pm, Neal Lippman wrote:
> > Two questions on installing KDE 2.1:
> >
> > Firstly, I STILL cannot find it in the download sites
> > provided on KDE's website. Where are people getting it
> > from?
>
> Any cooker mirror in the .../unsupported/...../kde2.1/
> directory. I d/l'd all but the *i18n*rpms.
> http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/cookerdevel.php3
>
> > Secondly, the KDE web site states that qt-2.2.4 is
> > required, but it will probably work with qt-2.2.3. On my
> > system, `rpm -q qt` tells me I have qt-1.44-28mdk
> > installed - this is what I got with a basic 7.2 install.
> > Do the KDE rpm's include the update to qt automatically,
> > or do I need to first upgrade qt? If so, where do I get
> > qt from?
>
> these qt2 rpms are in the /kde2.1/ dir
>
> libqt2-2.2.4-3mdk.i586.rpm
> libqt2-devel-2.2.4-3mdk.i586.rpm
> qt2-Xt-2.2.4-3mdk.i586.rpm
> qt2-designer-2.2.4-3mdk.i586.rpm
> qt2-static-libraries-2.2.4-3mdk.i586.rpm
>
> .....and replaced all my previous 2.2.3 qt2's.
>
> I upgraded from Chris Molnar's kde2.1b2 on a
> 7.2/2.4.2-4/XF-4.0.2 system. I d/l'd all the kde2.1 rpms
> ('cept i18n) to a dir by themselves and ran 'rpm -Uvh *'
> I got failed deps for for 'pciutils', 'apmd' 'libmng1', and
> 'libkdefakes'. So I got the latest appropriate src rpms
> for those, rebuilt and installed them. Then I still got
> failed deps for 'libmng1' and 'libkdefakes', but a
> 'updatedb' then 'locate' check said that i did have them.
> It took a 'rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps *' to get all the
> new KDE2.1 pkgs to install. Then I ran 'rpm --rebuilddb',
> 'update-menus -v', and 'ldconfig' and restarted X (a few
> times).
>
> That was last Saturday AM, and the system's been up
> since with no problems. Kmail has no fixed width fonts
> available (but Knode and other KDE apps do [?]), but I've
> seen others report the same for KDE2.1 with other distros.
> Konqueror is much improved, as are many various kde2
> features.
Tom....I'm using lucindatypriter with Kmail 1.2. The only
difference I can see offhand between our installations is my
lack of the qt2-static-libraries.
--
Alan
