I believe that I missed the boat somewhere. I just installed Linux/Mandrake 6.5. I installed Linux per the install guides. I'm able to log in successfully, but instead of getting KDE as the default user interface I get the X user interface. Not that big of a deal, but I thought KDE would be installed automatically. I did a "find" on kde and came up with nothing. So... I looked at CD3 of and saw that there was a "getting started with KDE". I found the install section, copied over the appropriate files off of CD1 and ran the rpm -Uvh on the files in the correct order. However, on $ rpm -Uvh kdebase_1.1.2-9mbk.i586.rpm I got error : failed dependencies mandrake_desk >= 0.8.2 is needed by kdebase_1.1.2-9mbk.i586.rpm libMesaGL.so.3 is needed by kdebase_1.1.2-9mbk.i586.rpm libMesaGLU.so.3 is needed by kdebase_1.1.2-9mbk.i586.rpm So... this was the only one that failed, but because it is "base" I'm not getting what I need. I'm guessing I need to upgrade a rpm somewhere. I'm assuming that after I get this up and going that startx command - correct? Any help is appreciated - I'm not so sure I what to hang out in the X mode. TIA, JB
