i've been using kde-3.0rc since it came out and its been running great!
kde-3.0 is compiling as i'm typing this now...=)
its not hard to install, but i suggest screwing the rpms if you have a fast
computer. rpms always cause me much pain. i left kde-2.2.2 on my computer
from the redhat 7.2 installation simply because if i try to uninstall any of
the rpms, i get all sorts of dependencies breaking errors from rpm.
steps for installing kde-3.0 (into /usr/local/kde-3.0) without uninstalling
kde-2.2.2:
1) compile and install qt-3.0.3 into /usr/local/qt-3.0.3
1a) edit /etc/ld.so.conf and replace the line with qt in it to
/usr/local/qt-3.0.3
1b) run ldconfig
2) "./configure --prefix=/usr/local/kde-3.0; make; make install" for arts,
kdelibs, and kdebase (in that order)
3) "./configure --prefix=/usr/local/kde-3.0; make; make install" for any
other kdepackages you want to install
4) edit /etc/profile.d/qt.sh and change QTDIR="/usr/local/qt-3.0.3"
5) edit /etc/profile.d/kde.sh and change KDEDIR="/usr/local/kde-3.0"
6) edit /etc/profile and append >to the end< of the file the following 2
lines:
1) PATH=$KDEDIR/bin:$QTDIR/bin:$PATH
2) export PATH
7) logout, log back in and type startx and you should be in kde-3.0
step 6 is important. the new QTDIR/bin and KDEDIR/bin should be at the
beginning of the path so your old qt and old kde programs aren't executed
instead of the new ones.
hope this helps. kde-3.0 is the awesome!
christopher
P.S. there is one annoying bug in kde-3.0rc3. sometimes if you hit the back
button in konqueror and highlight text in a text box, hitting a key will not
replace the highlighted text, it will append the char to the end of the text.
if you rehighlight and try again it works, but it takes two tries sometimes.
dunno if this is fixed in 3.0 final.
On Friday 05 April 2002 01:37 am, Greg Robertson wrote:
> Has anyone installed an using KDE 3.0? I am thinking about installing it.
> I am curious if its stable and how much of a pain the install is. If you
> installed it please let me know a little about how it went
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