Re: KDE debs building

[John S. J. Anderson]

Tim Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> i would quite pleased to have kde 3 on debian

Garnome () has been able to build
KDE3 for a while now, and it works just fine on Debian. It doesn't
make packages or anything fancy like that, but it also doesn't touch
things under /usr, so it's all good.

john.
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Re: Lord, Love-A-Duck! My Icons are back!

[John S. J. Anderson]

Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> None of the KDE core packages are yet built against libpng2.
> kde{admin,graphics,network,pim,ssh,utils} should be OK because they were
> never built against libpng3.

So, is there any way to speed one's way back to a functional KDE?
Doesn't seem like 'apt-get -b source kde' is likely to work; can
anyone provide a list of packages that need to be rebuilt?

john.
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stuck at "initializing system services"

[John S. J. Anderson]

Greetings --

I'm having a little problem with a fresh install of Debian with KDE
2.2.2 on a new computer. Whenever I try to start KDE, it hangs for a
_long_ time at the "Initializing system services..." stage of ksplash
(the second icon). Eventually, ksplash goes away, and I'm left staring
at a grey screen. Eventually, I do get logged in, and I get the normal
desktop, and everything works, but it takes around 5 minutes or so for
that to happen.

I'm pretty sure this isn't a KDE problem per se, as it also happens
with a copy of KDE that I built from source. Clearly, something that
should be installed or configured isn't -- I just need a pointer as to
what.

As an aside, the machine that I'm replacing has also been running
Debian with KDE, and it doesn't display these symptoms. With the
exception of some hardware-specific packages that I don't need
anymore, these two machines have identical packages installed -- which
is what makes me think "configuration issue".

Any and all pointers welcome.

Oh, in case it matters: 

1.4 GHz Athlon, 512 MB RAM
Debian 'sid', up to date as of this evening, running kernel 2.4.17
(mainline) 

TIA,
john.
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Re: Kicker dies!!!

[John S. J. Anderson]

Franz Keferboeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I can restart it, but after about 15 secs it dies again! Can anybody
> tell me what's wrong??? Or where could I search for the problem (any
> logs or something like that?)

If you restart it from a shell (by typing 'kicker' at the prompt after
it dies), you should see a bunch of output get printed to the
shell. Does that output look like it ends with anything interesting
after kicker kicks?

john.
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Re: Mosfet's Liquid Theme & Compilation Problems

[John S. J. Anderson]

Robert Tilley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I have some questions for anyone who has successfully used Mosfet's
> Liquid theme, before he tried to remove it from the web.  

That's a somewhat inaccurate characterization. He removed it from his
site, and announced that he wouldn't be developing it anymore. He
didn't attempt to "remove it from the web".

> I'm using version 0.6 of it and have the following errors on the
> last step of installion (make install):

> liquidclient.h:5: client.h: No such file or directory

OMM, that file is at $KDEDIR/include/kwin/client.h

> liquidclient.cpp:15: kwin/workspace.h: No such file or directory

OMM, that file is at $KDEDIR/include/kwin/workspace.h

> liquidclient.cpp:16: kwin/options.h: No such file or directory

OMM, that file is at $KDEDIR/include/kwin/options.h

> Any information is most appreciated.

At first blush, I would guess that you're missing one or more of the
*-dev packages -- kdebase-dev at the very least. 

If you _do_ have that installed, make sure that $KDEDIR is set in your
environment. 

john.
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