Next time, if you wish to use beta software or mess around, create a directory called say /opt/kde3 and /opt/kde3/qt3 or even $HOME/kde3 or $HOME/qt3 or whatever..
Give only youre user (i.e not root) complete access, and then install into there, i.e: # ./configure --prefix=/opt/kde3 blah!..blah! (for kde) or # ./configure --prefix=/opt/kde3/qt3 blah!..blah! (for qt3) Add /opt/kde3/lib and /opt/kde3/qt3/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf and also add the paths to youre default path, preferable before the default ones, that way it will (should) look into the /opt directories first, then if all goes wrong, just do: # rm -rf /opt/kde3 This will keep youre system nice and clean, as as you are doing this as a mere mortal, rather than root, you will not have write permissions to the main directory structure, thus the normal sytem is nice and safe Hope that helps Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]