On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Jose Albores wrote:
> I've just installed Kde from rpm binaries files on RedHat 5.1 in the
> proper sequence.
> I'd setup my "PATH" on /etc/profile to: "/opt/kde" and added:
It says to add "/opt/kde/bin" to your PATH. /opt/kde is the installation
directory of KDE, with the executables being in /opt/kde/bin
> KDEDIR=/opt/kde
> export KDEDIR
> in "/etc/profile".
> Also added an "~/.Xclients" with the following content:
> /opt/kde/bin/startkde
> But when I run "startx" I get some error messages (SEE ATTACHMENT,
> please) and system goes back to console.
> It seems it's _almost_ ready -but not at all- to run, and it does not.
> My two questions are:
>
> 1.- Perhaps obvious: What am I missing?
> I guess something is wrong with my qt-1.44-libraries. Maybe? Error
> messages are attached.
>
> 2.- The Installation instructions say the following:
>
> ---------------- begin ----------------
> "First of all, make sure that you have added KDE's binary installation
> directory (e.g. /opt/kde/bin) to your PATH and KDE's library
> installation directory to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH (only necessary on
> systems that do not support rpath; on Linux ELF, it should work without)
> this environment variable may be called differently on some systems,
> e.g. it is called SHLIB_PATH on Irix). Then set the environment variable
> KDEDIR to the base of your KDE tree, e.g. /opt/kde."
> ---------------- end ----------------
>
> So I ask: what is the "LD_LIBRARY_PATH" and what is a "Linux ELF" ??? Is
> redhat a Linux ELF???
yes it is
> Should I add this library path? and how/where???
probably not.
>
> --
> Jos� Albores
> Buenos Aires.
> Argentina.
Frank
