Re: [expert] I am in KDE HELL

[Jason Greenwood]

Ok, I offer 2 possible solutions for you then. Download the 9.0 ISO's for free (or have them burned to CD by someone you know who already has them) and upgrade the lot (or just upgrade KDE by adding the 3 9.0 CD's as sources in URPMI). Download the (Cooker) KDE RPM's via RPMdrake, and then satisfy the dependencies the same way. I just don't understand why you can't do the downloads (for free) that you need instead of going through the hassle of compiling something that requires vastly different libs etc. than the system you are currently running. Just my .0002c worth.

Regards

J

Praedor Atrebates wrote:

On Sunday 15 December 2002 15:37, Jason Greenwood wrote:
  

Just wondering why you don't use the pre-built mdk RPM?? Wouldn't it be
easier??

Cheers
    

Hello,

I cannot use the prebuilts because I am not running MDK 9.0.  I am still using 
8.2 so I must rebuild for my system.  It seems rather ridiculous for me to 
shell out for 9.0 just so I can have a working KDE 3 but have to go back to 
the 8.2 kernel in order to retain functionality (usb, supermount).  I tried 
the 9.0 kernel for a while (built like all my kernels for years) and it was 
too borked for me to tolerate it so I went back to the 2.4.18 kernel.  It 
seems more reasonable to stick with 8.2 until 9.1 comes out with a, 
presumably, bug-fixed kernel.  Thus, I must build kde 3 myself as the 
prebuilts are based on the wrong glibc.

praedor

  

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