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 > () 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 widely

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 > > () for Mandrake to get the source and compile it with 586 > > optimizations? Should I grab from CVS? Can anyone else (please..?) make > > s

Re: [expert] KDE2 Beta 4: Kooldown

2000-08-23 Thread lselinger
linger/SaskPower) Subject: Re: [expert] KDE2

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.

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

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 b

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 -

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): ERRO

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 any

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, Saran

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

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 t

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 <[EM

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

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

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 .rpm --prefix=/opt/kde2 and it will do what you want. Last I checked, there were still one or 2 files th

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

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: