Hello, Maybe just stating the obvious but this worked for me on: - a toshiba portege laptop - a desktop SMP config both running Mdk7.1 Basically I just followed the instructions at: http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-2.0.html They also explain how to setup kde2 in kdm login manager. Some compilation options & review at: http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/2531/1/ Chose to install qt-2.2.1 in /usr/lib/qt2 and Kde2 in /opt/kde2 Only pbm I encountered was during the compilation of kdelibs which could not find /usr/lib/libasound.so I found libasound.so.1 in one of the alsa package which was a link to libasound.so.1.x.x so I just created a simlink: ln -s /usr/lib/libasound.so.1.x.x /usr/lib/libasound.so and that was it. If the compilation fails because a library is missing or something similar there is a very good way to find which package is missing: - mount you Mdk 7.1 CD#1 (eg. /mnt/cdrom) - rpm -qpli /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/*.rpm > mdk71_pkgcd1 (creates list of all files in all package on CD#1 in mdk71_pkgcd1) - mount you Mdk 7.1 CD#2 - rpm -qpli /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS2/*.rpm > mdk71_pkgcd2 (creates list of all files in all package on CD#2 in mdk71_pkgcd2) you will get the list of all files in all packages in Mdk7.1 distro then just hunt for the one missing. Note: - do not forget to setup QTDIR and KDEDIR... - do not forget "make install"... - compile qt-2.2.1 then kdesupport then kdelibs then the rest in any order. Warning: - this does take care of the Mandrake-menus. I just wanted to see what KDE2 looked like ;-) so far I am pretty impressed although some applications crashed a few times. Konqueror is superb! Cheers, Fred
