Re: [expert] KDE2 Beta 4: Kooldown

2000-08-24 Thread Jesper Holmberg
* On Thursday, August 24, Sarang Lakare wrote: I installed as you said.. but then I logged out of GNOME and found a weird login screen.. with kde, gnone, .. failsafe.. all listed on one line.. so i can't select between them.. and then when i login, it be default goes to IceWM.. I don't

RE: [expert] KDE2 Beta 4: Kooldown

2000-08-24 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS
this as a desktop if it is final. -Original Message- From: Anton Graham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 1:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] KDE2 Beta 4: Kooldown Submitted 23-Aug-00 by Asheesh Laroia: What is a poor little Mandrake user to do? Should I

RE: [expert] KDE2 Beta 4: Kooldown

2000-08-24 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS
Mine that I download from molnar's site all installed to /opt -Original Message- From: Asheesh Laroia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 1:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] KDE2 Beta 4: Kooldown On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Anton Graham wrote

Re: [expert] KDE2 Beta 4: Kooldown

2000-08-24 Thread Benjamin Reed
I say it's bad because I want my KDE2 stuff in /opt/kde2, so I can have both KDEs installed at the same time. All of the KDE packages I've seen are relocatable. You can do rpm --install something.rpm --prefix=/opt/kde2 and it will do what you want. Last I checked, there were still one or 2

Re: [expert] KDE2 Beta 4: Kooldown

2000-08-24 Thread mark
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, you wrote: I installed as you said.. but then I logged out of GNOME and found a weird login screen.. with kde, gnone, .. failsafe.. all listed on one line.. so i can't select between them.. and then when i login, it be default goes to IceWM.. what do I do? how do i get

Re: [expert] KDE2 Beta 4: Kooldown - solved

2000-08-24 Thread Sarang Lakare
all i did was go to console ctrl-alt-F1, did init 3 to go into runlevel 3 and then init 5 to get back to runlevel 5 and everything was ok... i selected KDE and there i go into KDE 2!!! i don't like/want to reboot my machine.. so these are shortcuts which help me :) -sarang Sarang Lakare wrote:

Re: [expert] KDE2 Beta 4: Kooldown

2000-08-23 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 23-Aug-00 by Asheesh Laroia: What is a poor little Mandrake user to do? Should I just wait (groan) for Mandrake to get the source and compile it with 586 optimizations? Should I grab from CVS? Can anyone else (please..?) make some packages for it? Mandrake builds what are

Re: [expert] KDE2 Beta 4: Kooldown

2000-08-23 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Anton Graham wrote: Submitted 23-Aug-00 by Asheesh Laroia: What is a poor little Mandrake user to do? Should I just wait (groan) for Mandrake to get the source and compile it with 586 optimizations? Should I grab from CVS? Can anyone else (please..?) make some

Re: [expert] KDE2 Beta 4: Kooldown

2000-08-23 Thread lselinger
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Re: [expert] KDE2 Beta 4: Kooldown

2000-08-23 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 23-Aug-00 by Asheesh Laroia: Mandrake builds what are widely considered to be the best KDE2 rpms around. You have to look in the cooker (development) mirrors to find them: Yes, but these RPMS were compiled with ./configure --prefix=/usr Actually, it's %configure these days. Or,

Re: [expert] KDE2 Beta 4: Kooldown

2000-08-23 Thread Sergio Korlowsky
On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, you wrote: I noticed there was a new version of KDE2 beta (version 1.93) available at KDE.org. I guess it's kalled kooldown because it's the final beta before the September 4 release. Has anyone seen Mandrake RPMS for it? Sincerely, Asheesh Laroia. Those files

Re: [expert] KDE2 Beta 4: Kooldown

2000-08-23 Thread Alan N
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are looking for the latest release I'm not sure if there have been any significant changes *but* if you are just looking for both versions there is a great site .. http://www.kde.org/kde1-and-kde2.html ... which explains the process for installing both.

Re: [expert] KDE2 Beta 4: Kooldown

2000-08-23 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 23-Aug-00 by Alan N: Upon install ( in proper order ) I get upon installing kde-base I believe, the rpm requires kde-qt addon. But this is SUPPOSED to be supplied by kde-support ( which rpm uvh'ed OK ).. Know problem. Chris has said to use --force on it. -- Anton Graham

Re: [expert] KDE2 Beta 4: Kooldown

2000-08-23 Thread Alan N
Anton Graham wrote: Submitted 23-Aug-00 by Alan N: Upon install ( in proper order ) I get upon installing kde-base I believe, the rpm requires kde-qt addon. But this is SUPPOSED to be supplied by kde-support ( which rpm uvh'ed OK ).. Know problem. Chris has said to use --force on

Re: [expert] KDE2 Beta 4: Kooldown

2000-08-23 Thread Jesper Holmberg
Well, I've installed it all (kde*-1.93...rpm, koffice-1.93...rpm). Looks incredible! But I can't get KOffice to work. While starting e.g. KWord, I get the following response: koffice (lib kofficecore): WARNING: Office/kword.desktop: no X-KDE-NativeMimeType entry! koffice (lib kofficecore):

Re: [expert] KDE2 Beta 4: Kooldown

2000-08-23 Thread Sarang Lakare
can anyone give a short description how to install KDE 2.. I use GNOME (waiting for KDE 2.0 to come out ;) and so want to install KDE 2 on top of KDE 1.1.. and now I am too eager to install the latest beta.. I know from where to get teh rpms.. but how to install them once i get them.. i mean

Re: [expert] KDE2 Beta 4: Kooldown

2000-08-23 Thread Jesper Holmberg
Hi Sarang! Well, get qt-2.2...rpm and kde*-1.93...rpm Then rpm -Uvh in this order: qt-2.2... kdesupport kdelib kdebase kde* This should work. I had some problems with dependencies, so you might rpm -e --nodeps some of the old kde*-1.1...rpm's first. HTH Jesper * On Thursday, August 24,

Re: [expert] KDE2 Beta 4: Kooldown

2000-08-23 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Anton Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ah well. Maybe I'll see some more /opt RPMS sometime soon. You may be able to convince Chris to package some that way, but he's been very busy lately just keeping on top of the CVS snapshots. and i'm sure Chris would never want to violate the FHS (and

Re: [expert] KDE2 Beta 4: Kooldown

2000-08-23 Thread Sarang Lakare
I installed as you said.. but then I logged out of GNOME and found a weird login screen.. with kde, gnone, .. failsafe.. all listed on one line.. so i can't select between them.. and then when i login, it be default goes to IceWM.. what do I do? how do i get the login menu back? how do i login

Re: [expert] KDE2 Beta 4: Kooldown

2000-08-23 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 23-Aug-00 by Chmouel Boudjnah: and i'm sure Chris would never want to violate the FHS (and if he don't care i'm sure some others mdksoft developers care about this ;). Well I wasn't going to mention that part :p -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL