On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Rik Osborne wrote: > Can someone point me in the direction of a step-by-step guide to > getting KDE to run under Red Hat Linux 5.2? > > I've installed KDE from the RPMs included with RH 5.2. Everything seems > to be in place. Following the instructions at the KDE website, I've > tried editing Xclients and xinitrc, to no effect. The KDE site also has > some other instructions that, being a newbie, I don't understand at > all. For example: > > "First of all, please 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..." These sound like compilation directions. First off, make sure you have the binary packages (no xxx.src.rpm). Then, on the KDE ftp sites, under the Redhat 5.x directory, there will be quick and simple installation script made just for Redhat. Otherwise, install qt-1.4xxx, kdesupportxxx, kdelibsxxx and kdebasexxx, in that order, then the rest of the packages (kdegames, kdeutils, etc). Use Glint to do this. The binary RPM's will handle the paths for you. After you've done this, set up KDE for initial use by typing "usekde" in your home directory. And yes, someone needs to update, clarify the installation instructions. I doubt that this has been done since KDE 1.0. -- Arandir... _______________________________ <http://www.meer.net/~arandir/>
