On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 14:25 -0500, Randall D. Hobbs wrote: > On Saturday 16 October 2004 02:11 pm, Jack wrote: > > Hi Randall... thanks for the reply. Being a silver member of Mandrake > > Club, I already have CD4 with the KDE 3.3 on it. Is there a way of > > doing this using the install drake instead? Or failing that, is there a > > way of adapting your technique to eliminate the necessity of downloading > > the KDE 3.3 and getting if from my cd instead? And finally, I would most > > definitely want to see a copy of your gar.conf.mk to make sure I was > > doing everything right. > > Unofortunately, the RPM's wouldn't afford you the ability to build it in > another location. They're set up to install system wide, and will overwrite > the existing RPM's with the new version (or should I say UPGRADE). You could > probably do it with the source RPM's, but you're looking at modifying them > much past the point of it being useful, so I would definitely recommend just > letting it download the tar.bz2 files and compiling it from scratch. >
Okay, I'll do it your original way then... > I've also attached the configuration file to this post (hopefully it won't be > stripped out). If it is, I'll attach it and send it directly. Note that this > configuration file is set up for Athlon XP and system wide install. The > default settings should be OK for installing into your home directory, and > you might want to uncomment out the optimization that fits your processor > type. If I understand this correctly, I then should *not* use your configuration file and just accept the defaults that come with perhaps changing a few settings to optimize my Intel 2.6 CPU, right? > > > (On a minor note, would allowing the default of setting up KDE 3.3 in my > > home directory okay? Would that leave the 3.2 alone? Would I then have > > the 2 KDE's showing up as desktop options upon logging in?) > > Sure. Setting it up in your home directory will allow you to go with either > version whenever you choose. If you install 3.3.1 and decide you like it, you > might then decide to install it system wide - at which point you can just > remove the KDE that's in your home directory, and compile it with the proper > settings for all users. > > > PS Sorry for the completely newbie type questions. Having formerly > > consulted in the Windows (and Dos) world for years, I'm gaining an > > appreciation for how my customers must have felt!!! :-) > > No problem at all. We all have to learn, in one way or the other. I am just > glad I can help out... > Randall, thanks again. "You the man!!!" :-) - Jack
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