--- Arandir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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?
[snip]
> 
> 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.

I followed all your instructions to the letter, but still no luck. I
get this error message:

bash: usekde: command not found

There is a script called "startkde" that gets installed along with
everything else in the KDE packages, and according to the info on the
KDE site, "startkde" should do just that (the KDE site says to put this
into my Xclients or xinitrc file). But typing "startkde" gets me the
same error message I mentioned above.

Could I be typing "usekde" from the wrong location? Perhaps I'm not
understanding the "home directory" part of your instructions. When I
log in as root, is /root my home directory? i.e. the initial directory
I'm dumped into after logging in as any user.

This is my 3rd attempt at learning Linux - the first attempt I tried
LinuxPPC release 4, which booted directly into KDE, so I didn't get
around to figuring this stuff out. (I gave up on LinuxPPC because at
that time they still didn't have all the kinks worked out of
dual-booting, and I was trying to have both Linux and Mac OS on
separate drives on the same machine.)

My second attempt was RedHat 5.0/Intel, which was included free with
the "Sam's Teach Yourself Linux in 24 Hours" book, and didn't have KDE
available on the CD.

 > And yes, someone needs to update, clarify the installation
> instructions. I
> doubt that this has been done since KDE 1.0.

Hear, hear!!
===
Rik Osborne
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