Nick Rout wrote:
You may be ready for gentoo :-)
I was a starter for the 'fest a couple of times ago in the garage but
had to cancel due to family commitments :-(
I didn't mention the command line actually! I said stick with packages
from your distro :-) That is because i thought your aim was to have
kde-3.4 installed on your system.
true, you didn't mention the command line but the implications are that
this is what i'd end up doing. Several goals right now really - upgrade
KDE and I'll use YAST for that, maybe tonight, move on to some simple
compiling tasks (having ever only done one), and get along to the
meeting to find out more about kernel upgrades/compiling.
If the aim is to learn how to compile kde-3.4 then thats an admirable
goal. However there is no way that anyone could compile kde on the sort
of hardware that is likely to be available in the scope of a linux group
meeting, and besides that it is a pretty boring screenshow to type make
and then watch it compile. kde is a pretty complicated build AFAIK and
time consuming too.
perhaps too much for me to actually try as a compile - I realise that
there are 20 packages to download (some optional some required) and that
this would be quite a challenge. Likely outcome of trying it myself is
broken system and subsequent upgrade to suse 9.3 so I've not gone
there. One day...
Cheers,
Roger
