* Rik Osborne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990731 23:22]:
>
>
> --- 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.
>
You must simply do what you said in your first email. Add the
/opt/kde/bin directory to your path. Then the sheel will know how to
find all the apps stored there, such as usekde.
To add this to your path, edit the file ~/.bash_profile and add the
line
export PATH="$PATH:/opt/kde/bin"
When you next log in, type usekde, then type startx, and you're off.
Your other question, your home directory is that which is pointed to
by ~, cd ~ will always take you "home". If you are a user named fred,
your home directory is /home/fred. For root, it can be /home/root, but
is often /root instead. (distro dependant).
(You should not run X as root).
Tom.
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