[newbie] KDE 3.0

2002-07-27 Thread K. Spress Jr
How do i download the new version of KDE and install it in Mandrake 8.2? Kenneth Spress [EMAIL PROTECTED] == This is not a spam! Your are receiving this email either because, you have sent me an email in the past, or you are on a list of

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0

2002-07-27 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Saturday 27 July 2002 10:44 pm, K. Spress Jr wrote: How do i download the new version of KDE and install it in Mandrake 8.2? Kenneth Spress [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kenneth: With care and diligence. I'd start by looking through the newbie archives at

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0

2002-07-09 Thread teddy wl
I'm so sorry, I'm newly join this mailing list, and I'm newbie to in linux. i use Mandrake8.2/kde 2.2.2 I have KDE3.0 that build from Mandrake RPM, how to upgrade kde2.2.2 in mandrake to kde3? yesterday I try to upgrade but the system look like not stable,mybe all of you can give me some

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0

2002-07-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 09 Jul 2002 8:48 am, teddy wl wrote: I'm so sorry, I'm newly join this mailing list, and I'm newbie to in linux. i use Mandrake8.2/kde 2.2.2 I have KDE3.0 that build from Mandrake RPM, how to upgrade kde2.2.2 in mandrake to kde3? yesterday I try to upgrade but the system look

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0

2002-07-09 Thread dfox
I'm curious about something. compared to the upgrading of KDE from version(s) 1.x.x to 2.x.x the upgrade went rather smoothly once you had Agreed that 2.2.x to 3.0 beta was a minor pain, due mostly to a lot of dependency conflicts. I have found that upgrading the 3.0 beta1 to 3.0.1 and now

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0

2002-07-07 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On Saturday 06 Jul 2002 6:03 am, Barry Michels wrote: I found this tutorial ( http://www.atechsol.net/kde3.html ) and it worked. KDE3 looks great! I've got a liquid theme with transparent menus and a digitally created water wallpaper. I'm still going through all the areas in Control Center

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0

2002-07-05 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 July 2002 03:50 am, Barry Michels did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I installed from the rpms and now have a /opt/kde3 directory. I've chanded my path to include it's bin directory. With or without the LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0

2002-07-05 Thread Barry Michels
I found this tutorial ( http://www.atechsol.net/kde3.html ) and it worked. KDE3 looks great! I've got a liquid theme with transparent menus and a digitally created water wallpaper. I'm still going through all the areas in Control Center to see what all can be changed Barry On Friday

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0

2002-06-29 Thread Norm
Alastair Scott wrote: Oh no you don't have to pay for it and QT and KDE are installed in a oner :) Not sure if there are any up-to-date HOWTOs around, but the drill is: i. Download *every* package from here and put them all in one directory:

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0

2002-06-29 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 29 June 2002 5:56 pm, Norm wrote: Thanks Alastair, I've done the above steps, now when I type urpmi.addmedia kde3 file://path to directory I get this message, unable to access medium kde3 unable to create medium kde3 is it

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0

2002-06-29 Thread Norm
Hi Alastair, Got to the bottom of it, the path didn't seem to work when I used the absolute path ie /home/norm/temp/kde so I cd'd to /home... and used file://. and it worked perfectly ( well except for a few dependencies I had to fetch ). Now I can see what I think of KDE3. Thanks for being

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0 - Worth the Upgrade

2002-04-18 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 16 April 2002 10:42 am, you wrote: On Tuesday 16 April 2002 00:03, Pauljames Dimitriu opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Anyone here upgrade to KDE 3.0? Is it worth the upgrade or is it like Windows.wait a while after it's initial

[newbie] KDE 3.0 - Worth the Upgrade

2002-04-16 Thread Pauljames Dimitriu
Anyone here upgrade to KDE 3.0? Is it worth the upgrade or is it like Windows.wait a while after it's initial release? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0 - Worth the Upgrade

2002-04-16 Thread Brian Koppe
I've upgraded to KDE 3 and I'd say it's most likely worth it. There are DEFINITELY some bugs though so if you want something that's gonna work just right, I'd wait a little longer. Pauljames Dimitriu wrote: Anyone here upgrade to KDE 3.0? Is it worth theupgrade or is it like

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0 - Worth the Upgrade

2002-04-16 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 00:03:27 -0700 (PDT), Pauljames Dimitriu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone here upgrade to KDE 3.0? Is it worth the upgrade or is it like Windows.wait a while after it's initial release? For my experience, KDE 3.0 is too buggy and unstable to be used as a proper desktop.

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0 - Worth the Upgrade

2002-04-16 Thread Nelson Bartley
At this point, wait until the mandrake staff has moved KDE 3 into cooker, as at the moment it's sitting in contrib, and has a few too many bugs. Unfortunately it is not a straight upgrade as it seriously messes up config files for kde2. On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 03:03, Pauljames Dimitriu wrote:

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0 - Worth the Upgrade

2002-04-16 Thread shane
On Tuesday 16 April 2002 00:03, Pauljames Dimitriu opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Anyone here upgrade to KDE 3.0? Is it worth the upgrade or is it like Windows.wait a while after it's initial release? i used the texstar rpms (link to ftp at

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0 - Worth the Upgrade

2002-04-16 Thread civileme
Pauljames Dimitriu wrote: Anyone here upgrade to KDE 3.0? Is it worth the upgrade or is it like Windows.wait a while after it's initial release? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0

2002-04-09 Thread shane
On Monday 08 April 2002 14:37, Brian York opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Has anyone installed KDE 3.0 on Mandrake 8.2 and gotten KDE 3 to work. If so what RPMs did you install? I installed all of the RPMs under the RPM dir of Mandrake on the KDE ftp

[newbie] KDE 3.0

2002-04-08 Thread Brian York
I have Mandrake 8.2 and when i installed the RPMs to upgrade KDE they screwed up KDE it was 3.0 but nothing worked. I lost most of the menus (k button and right click menu links were dead) and no telling what i didn't know. Can anyone help me? Thanks Brian

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0

2002-04-08 Thread shane
On Monday 08 April 2002 05:40, Brian York opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: I have Mandrake 8.2 and when i installed the RPMs to upgrade KDE they screwed up KDE it was 3.0 but nothing worked. I lost most of the menus (k button and right click menu links

[newbie] KDE 3.0

2002-04-08 Thread Brian York
Has anyone installed KDE 3.0 on Mandrake 8.2 and gotten KDE 3 to work. If so what RPMs did you install? I installed all of the RPMs under the RPM dir of Mandrake on the KDE ftp site. Thanks Brian _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0

2002-04-08 Thread James Thomas
Mine works fine, I did the same thing. I am writing this in fact using Konqueror for KDE 3.0. If you download all your RPMs to the same directory (and no other rpms are in there - not sure if that part matters but it's how I did it), then you can just do: urpmi ./* and it will ask for Disk 1