Ghil Vertefeuille Posted February 26, 2004 Report Share Posted February 26, 2004 I'm trying to install KDE 3.2 and still haven't been able to...can someone post a clear HOWto or a link to an RPM would be really appreciated...and the Readme included has yet to give me the answers :S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred_the_fish Posted February 26, 2004 Report Share Posted February 26, 2004 This could take me some time to write... - it took me about 3 days to get KDE3.2 to work. First I tried using Konstructor, but alsa was just permenantly broke... So this is how I did it.. First, if you don't already, install gnome / ice /another window manaker... (so you can save things if they go down the toilet..) Second, grab and install the new qt from somewhere - I let Konstructor do that for me :P Third... find a local cooker mirror (thats where you can find the rpms... - I'm in the UK, on the JANET line, so the closest for me was ftp.mirror.ac.uk, but I can't promise that it will work for non-acedimia users.. - go to Mandrake 10... look for your country (at the bottom), and then browse the ftp site for something resembling SunSITE's cooker... Point the software media manager to all three RPM folders (They all have things you could need), and find the hdlist.cz files too, and tell SMM where to find em... Fourth... delete the old KDE - for some reason, for me kde 3.1 and 3.2 on the same system led to LOTS of issues... conflicts etc, even though its MEANT to work.... but hey-ho.. my pc is Special... Fifth... fire up rpmdrake after telling it to look at the mirrors you previously found, and then grab from the Desktops section, all the RPMs for KDE that you think you will need, and install them. RPMDRAKE does a reasonable job with dependencies, but for some (such as the KDM, IGNORE it and use mdk-DM (or whatever its called) instead - the KDE one seems to lead to all sorts of problems (well... it did for me anyway..) I might have missed something here - I'm writing this from memory..., but thats the general gist of how I did it. Good luck if you do decide to go-ahead. Personally, I now believe that it may well have been easier to wait until Mandy10 passed from RC1 to a full distro release, and just grab the iso's... but I was impaitant... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghil Vertefeuille Posted February 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2004 ok thanks it will be of great help ^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cardassianscot Posted February 27, 2004 Report Share Posted February 27, 2004 There's nothing wrong with konstruct, its just LM doesn't install the right tools to use it to start with. There are two versions of autoconf, which can exist side by side. LM only installs one by default but you need the other one to make konstruct work. Just boot up rpmdrake type in autoconf and add it plus any dependencies that pop up and then run konstruct and it works fine. Of course you could consider the fact that it doesn't tell you that you don't have the correct version of autoconf and that you have to actually read the INSTALL file and compare versions manually, to mean that it is permenantly broke. It took me over 3 months to figure this out, so if you did think this you have a point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghil Vertefeuille Posted February 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2004 I thought about checking manually for versions of my softs, but not autoconf :S thanks for the tip! I had to do a fresh install so for now I'll stay with 3.1...unless someone makes a nice rpm that does the trick ust fine :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred_the_fish Posted February 27, 2004 Report Share Posted February 27, 2004 nope that wasn't my problem - I could build all of 3.2 with Konstructor, but the permisisions for Alsa just refused to work, and no matter what I did, I just couldn't get it to do what I wanted. Hence giving up, ripping it out, and useing cooker rpms for the mdk version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghil Vertefeuille Posted February 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2004 hmmmmcooker version? will it be stable? and another question: Can it just replace the KDE 3.1, instead of installing itself somewhere else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cardassianscot Posted February 27, 2004 Report Share Posted February 27, 2004 (edited) but the permisisions for Alsa just refused to work Can't help there, it worked fine for me. Could it be a sound card issue? I have a Sound Blaster Live 5.1. Edited February 27, 2004 by cardassianscot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 28, 2004 Report Share Posted February 28, 2004 hmmmmcooker version? will it be stable? and another question: Can it just replace the KDE 3.1, instead of installing itself somewhere else? cooker is never considered stable even when it is, and yes it can/will replace the old version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghil Vertefeuille Posted February 28, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2004 ok thanks I'll get it for testing :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 28, 2004 Report Share Posted February 28, 2004 :P see attached Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghil Vertefeuille Posted February 28, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2004 and how exactly do I use it? (I replaced my urpmi.cgg with it but urpmi didn't recognize anything so I switched back) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 28, 2004 Report Share Posted February 28, 2004 Add them not replace. Then either tell urpmi to specically use those sources from the commandline (urpmi -help or man urpmi) or use the media manager in mcc>software management to disable (not delete>disable[uncheck]) your old so that it only uses the new and update the sources. You could try to just add it though....urpmi is good with many sources. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghil Vertefeuille Posted February 29, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 29, 2004 I'll try, thanks :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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