On Mon, 24 Sep 2001 18:25:34 -0700
Tony Alfrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| On Monday 24 September 2001 08:15 am,[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| > On September 24, 2001 Tony Alfrey wrote:
| > >Here are suggestions from the KDE gods. I tried to update some time
| > >ago without following these words from the gods and made a mess.
| > >Success was had when I followed these steps. I wish I had seen
| > > these before I started ;- )
| >
| > Thanks. I've got some work ahead of me :|
|
Not really backing up. Just renaming the directory the current install is
in so it is out of the way. And making sure all new compiles go to
a unique directory, not to /opt/kde2.
| I think the main point about these suggestions that I followed was to
| back up and clean out /opt/kde2, /usr/lib/qt2 and ~/.kde2 in your home
| directory. I like to back up in /usr/local. I use midnight commander
| to do this so as to preserve ownership. Then I compiled the source,
| picking up the various libs that akar mentions toward the bottom of his
| list of suggestions. I did not perform many of the more exotic
| things that akar recommended for speed-up, but my compile went in with
| no errors. I also don't remember if akar mentioned it, but you also
| need the latest qt-2.3.1 I think is the number. See the kde site.
| You'lll need to get the source from trolltech; I would be skeptical
| about trying the Caldera qt-2 rpms. I had very good luck with
| compiling the trolltech source.
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