Worked like a charm, and I did have to do ldconfig.
Thank you very much.
I _was_ right about the blindingly obvious part though. I'm off to do more reading.
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 20:42:07 EDT
>Subject: Re: can't get kde working on redhat 5.2
>
>I think you are stubbing your nose on basic *NIX. The current working
>directory is _not_ normally in the list of directories the system
>searches when you (or a program or script running at your behest) name a
>command without an absolute or relative path name.
>
>Try this:
>
>PATH=$PATH:/opt/kde/bin startkde
>
>If that works, you might want to add /opt/kde/bin to the PATH in one of
>your shell startup files, maybe $HOME/.bash_profile.
>
>If you get "error loading shared libraries", add a line in
>/etc/ld.so.conf:
>
>/opt/kde/lib
>
>and have your system administrator run ldconfig (IOW, run it as root).
>
>On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, jack daly wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm new to the list and very new to linux so apologies to all if I'm
>> asking any blindingly obvious questions. Here's my problem. I have
>> RedHat 5.2 which comes with the KDE rpms but doesn't install them
>(legal
>> issues at release time it says at Sunsite.) So I installed them
>manually
>> (rpm -ivh kde*), worked ok after I installed the dependencies I got
>asked
>> for (rpm -ivh qt*.) Went to opt/kde/bin and found the file startkde.
>> Ran ./startkde and got 8 or so Command NotFound messages, the first
>> being for Kaudioserver. I checked to see if the files are there and
>they
>> are. Tried just 'startkde'. Then tried from an x-terminal but got the
>> same error.
>>
>> The only information I found relevant was a sequence that would make
>KDE
>> my default Xwindows, I didn't think it'd work since all I'm doing is
>> changing the command but I tried it anyway. Same error messages.
>>
>> I'm guessing there are maybe other files I need or a sequence of
>commands
>> to get KDE fuctional. (Couldn't find 'Kconfig' or anything close,
>though
>> I did try 'unpack' which did something, God knows what but didn't fix
>it.)
>>
>> Thanks in advance if anyone can help,
>>
>> jack daly
>
>Lawson
>
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