On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 03:33, Steven Spears wrote: > Hello: > > What is the best method of installing KDE 3.0. I've got in downloaded and > want to install it on my 8.2 system, but want to do it in the best possible > way. Any tips or hints? > > Thanks, > > Steve > > ---- >
> Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Put all the RPMs in a single directory Open up a terminal window and su to root and cd to your directory with the KDE rpms Now do these urpmi unixodbc (and from the reply install every match with urpmi urpmi postgresql (same activity again, and include all the -devels) urpmi MYSQL (go at it again, installing everything) NOW rpm -ivh *rpm Take notes, you will get some instructions. The procedure will hang on a warning message, refusing to tell you it is completed. Hit the Enter key once for the system prompt. That's it... It will show up as KDE3 on the kdm login screen and it will show up as 11 KDE on the choices Xtart presents from a console. Unles you save the session, it will ask for styles EVERY time you login which can be a pain. The soundserver is, to say the least, flaky. Programs like xmms will continue to work but don't bother reporting known bugs about KDE sound. Some of the login messages and panels may crash with a crash message if your security is High or Higher. KDE3 is making too many assumptions about permissions and open sockets. About par for the course for a .0 type release from KDE. Some things will improve with 3.1, but the new KDE is for the most part, smooth and nice. Liquid is not ready or KDE3 is not ready for liquid at this time. Some beautiful theming from Mosfet will just have to wait a little longer. Civileme
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