I have followed the instructions from alastair to install KDE3 in 8.2 and all goes fine, but it doesn't appear in the drop down list when i log out and try to log back in. KDE is in the menu but it simply loads KDE2 has before. Any ideas would be appreciated
Cheers Matt >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 21/04/02, 21:50:06, Alastair Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding Re: [newbie] KDE 3: > On Sunday 21 Apr 2002 8:23 pm, Jesse Angell wrote: > > Is KDE3 included in mandrake 8.2.. If not, how hard is it to upgrade > > it.. > It's not. But it turns out to be straightforward to upgrade thanks to a > little bit of magic from Mandrake (the urpmi command): > i. Go to a download location for the Mandrake packages via: > http://download.kde.org/stable/3.0/Mandrake/ > then the 8.2/RPMS/i586 directory on the server you're automatically > directed to. > ii. Download _every_ package there - I think there are currently > thirty-four of them - to a directory. Don't pick and choose the > packages; the next step may not work if you do so. > iii. Go to a shell, log in as root (su then <root password>) then do: > cd <the folder you downloaded everything to> > urpmi.addmedia kde3 file://<full pathname of that folder> [1] > urpmi * > And, after about 10 minutes, KDE3 will be installed. Log out of KDE2 > (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace) and log back in again, picking 'KDE3' from the > drop-down list of window managers on the login screen. That's all. > Alastair > [1] for example, I put the files in /home/alastair/kde3 so the commands > would be > cd /home/alastair/kde3 > urpmi.addmedia kde3 file:///home/alastair/kde3 > -- > Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) > http://www.unmetered.org.uk/
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