On Sunday 27 October 2002 05:31 am,Pam R wrote: > On Sunday 27 October 2002 11:14 am, Tony Alfrey wrote: > > I'm going to compile kde3 from source as I've compiled kde2 before > > many times with good success. > > But I'm always very cautious and like to save a backup in case > > things crash. Since installing 3 is not like just upgrading 2, I'd > > like to know the following: > > 99% of what gets compiled ends up in (depending on your choice) > > /opt/kde3. > > But there are "some" executables and maybe some scripts? that get > > written that can really make a mess unless they can be backed up > > and reinstalled to get back to 2 if need be. Does anyone know for > > dead certain which things these are?? Are they > > environment-variable dependent?? > > Thanks!
Ah, good! Pam Roberts, the expert on kde boot-up! > > Are you compiling from cvs or from a recent tarball (3.1 RC1 should > be out fairly soon), I downloaded the 3.0.4 archives because kde says it's "stable" > and are you already running some version of > kde3, No kde3 yet > and on what base distro ? That Caldera pre-3.0 thing Linux Technology Preview > > If you haven't seen it already you may find > http://developer.kde.org/build/build2ver.html useful. They say to > install the latest version as a new user, and that approach certainly > overcomes a lot of niggly problems. I'm really tempted to do that to at least see that it works and then I can slog through all the boot scripts to clean up the Caldera boot mess. Did you write a niggly problems SxS yet? -- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I'd rather be sailing" _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
