Sadly, its beginning to appear that installing KDE2 into a box that is currently running KDE1 is entirely more trouble than its worth. I've been working on getting just this accomplished for 3 days now with No success, and am now of the strong opinion that the only correct way to get it done is to just install Mandrake 7.2 and be done with it! Till you get done screwing around satisfying the meriad of dependancy issues which come up due to the stark reality of the incompatibility of a system which has been running KDE1 you run a 50/50 risk of roaching that system by causing more library conflicts, and possibly damaging the system mucking about TRYING to install something on a system that wasn't designed for KDE2! I know...a sentance does not a paragraph make, but I had to get that off my chest. I've collected over 30 RPM's and still counting attempting to install KDE2 on my Mandrake 7.1 system. God! my head hurts from keeping all that crap that I've been doing straight in my head. And all this just get friggin Koffice installed and working. It STILL doesn't work, nor do I have any hopes that it will ever work. Of course, I have another plan that I'm considering. That is to make a fresh install of Mandrake minus KDE at all and when the sytem comes up after the install I would install KDE2 fresh from the RPM's that I've squirreled away these last 3 days. Any comments? > >From: Gerald Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 20:41:40 +0700 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [expert] kde1-compat > >On Sunday 29 October 2000 05:37, you wrote: > >> > Hey, i was wondering if anyone else had a similar problem. I'm supposing >> the problem lies in the kde1-compat libraries in 7.2. It happens when i >> try to run the configure script for kdevelop1.2. It fails when it tries >> to compile a small kde application. A look at the config.log files gives >> these errors: > >> I was having the same problems with the 7.2beta and couldn't figure out >> why. Is it just a bad kde1 compatibility library or what? If anyone has >> a fix for this I'd like to hear it. >> >> Thanks, >> Benjamin Ellis > >If you are running KDE2, you probably have the enviroment set to where qt2 >and the KDE2 library files are located. I got around that problem by putting >the following in a script, and making it executible. > >#!/bin/sh >export KDEDIR=/opt/kde >export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt >export PATH=$KDEDIR/bin:$PATH >export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$KDEDIR/lib:$QTDIR/lib >./configure --prefix=/opt/kde > >After you do the config, you can go ahead and make, make install as usual. >You will also need to change the paths to suit your box. Hope it helps. > >Jerry > >-- >Gerald Williams -- Words Matter! >Bangkok, Thailand > > >Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: >Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. > >
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