Installing KDE on SL 6.8

2016-11-10 Thread Larry Linder
Apoligize for bad Subject. I am being forced for security reasons to migrate to 6.8 from 5.10. I use KDE a have 12 desktops set up so I can run a number of cad packages and numerous text adn spread sheets. When I loaded 6.8 on to test hard ware I can't run KDE or switch to KDE. I searced on we

Re: Installing KDE on SL 6.8

2016-11-10 Thread Karel Lang AFD
Hi Larry, i use KDE 4 on my SL 6.x for years, with no problem. The SL comes with basic Gnome 3 by default. But be ready for transition from KDE 3 -> KDE 4. If you want to use KDE 4, then you need to install it specifically. on my laptop: yum grouplist | grep -i desktop Desktop Desktop D

Re: Installing KDE on SL 6.8

2016-11-11 Thread David Sommerseth
On 11/11/16 07:23, Karel Lang AFD wrote: > Hi Larry, > > i use KDE 4 on my SL 6.x for years, with no problem. The SL comes with > basic Gnome 3 by default. But be ready for transition from KDE 3 -> KDE 4. Just nit-picking. SL6 comes with GNOME 2 by default. SL7 comes with GNOME 3, where "Classi

Re: Installing KDE on SL 6.8

2016-11-12 Thread Lamar Owen
On 11/10/2016 03:48 PM, Larry Linder wrote: When I loaded 6.8 on to test hard ware I can't run KDE or switch to KDE. If you want KDE 3, then you might want to look at the Trinity Desktop Environment: https://www.trinitydesktop.org/ Trinity is the offspring/follow-on to KDE 3 (3=Trinity). TDE