KDE 3.5 install probs (FBSD 5.4)

2006-01-01 Thread nospam
I've been trying to install the newer release of KDE on my 5.4 system with no luck. Here are some attempts: 1. Download kdebase-3.5.0 tarball, run ./configure (for starters): [laptop]/home/laptop/KDE/kdebase/kdebase-3.5.0(40): ./configure checking build system type... i386-unknown-freebsd5.4

Re: KDE 3.5 install probs (FBSD 5.4)

2006-01-01 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Sunday 01 January 2006 10:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been trying to install the newer release of KDE on my 5.4 system with no luck. Here are some attempts: 1. Download kdebase-3.5.0 tarball, run ./configure (for starters): [laptop]/home/laptop/KDE/kdebase/kdebase-3.5.0(40):

Re: KDE 3.5 install probs (FBSD 5.4)

2006-01-01 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Sunday 01 January 2006 12:46 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Download the sources, untar them. They are supposed to play like FBSD ports; cd into some directory and type make install. There is a meta directory; here's what happens there: Seems like there's a pretty high probability that KDE

Re: KDE 3.5 install probs (FBSD 5.4)

2006-01-01 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Sunday 01 January 2006 12:51 pm, Michael C. Shultz wrote: There is a perfectly good version of KDE in the ports tree, why do this? In his defense, that's only true if you consider the perfectly good version to be the one released last March, rather than the one released just over a month

Re: KDE 3.5 install probs (FBSD 5.4)

2006-01-01 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 01 January 2006 11:40 am, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Sunday 01 January 2006 12:46 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Download the sources, untar them. They are supposed to play like FBSD ports; cd into some directory and type make install. There is a meta directory; here's what happens

Re: KDE 3.5 install probs (FBSD 5.4)

2006-01-01 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Sunday 01 January 2006 11:43, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Sunday 01 January 2006 12:51 pm, Michael C. Shultz wrote: There is a perfectly good version of KDE in the ports tree, why do this? In his defense, that's only true if you consider the perfectly good version to be the one released last

Re: KDE 3.5 install probs (FBSD 5.4)

2006-01-01 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Sunday 01 January 2006 01:57 pm, Michael C. Shultz wrote: I understand impatience when a new version comes out and it isn't in the port's tree right away, but in the maintainer's defense: I remember just over a year ago when KDE used to crash rather regularly, now it is very stable, he is

Re: KDE 3.5 install probs (FBSD 5.4)

2006-01-01 Thread RW
On Sunday 01 January 2006 20:09, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Sunday 01 January 2006 01:57 pm, Michael C. Shultz wrote: I understand impatience when a new version comes out and it isn't in the port's tree right away, but in the maintainer's defense: I remember just over a year ago when KDE used