On Sunday 27 October 2002 3:00 pm, Tony Alfrey wrote: > 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.
If it helps, I have been building KDE 3 from cvs on a Caldera EW3.1 box for since the end of last year and until about 6 weeks ago was able to have just one user swapping between kde2 & 3 at login. But the changes they have added in going towards 3.1 seem to have broken that approach and I've now got 2 users, one for kde2 and one for kde3.-almost-1. With just one user, and keeping the user's config files separate in ~/.kde2 and ~/.kde3 that just leaves ~/.kderc and possibly the Desktop directory as being common between the 2 versions of kde. You will need to update or add quite a few things to be able to compile 3.0.4 properly. http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.0.4.html seems to cover most of them, and keeping an eye on the output of ./configure should tell you if anything is missing. BTW, the infamous 'GUI Login Hack' SxS (http://linux-sxs.org/kde2loginhack.html) applies to EW3.1 and LTP as well as ED2.4 and makes it easy to add kde3 to the GUI login dialog options. > Did you write a niggly problems SxS yet? 'fraid not, I'm still working on the wiggly and tiggly ones ;-) Enjoy -- Pam R: Don't put off until tomorrow what you can leave to the day after. Linux StepbyStep: http://www.linux-sxs.org/stepbystep.html _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
