Update to HOWTO for kde3.1 RC5

[Brian Waite]

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Ok so I have update the HOWTO becuase all of the issues related to konstruct 
not quite working on PPC have been fixed. You still ned to do a few updates, 
but overall this is a very easy install. Please try it out!

Thanks
Brian
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Building KDE 3.1RC5 on Yellowdog Linux 2.3

Introduction:
	Konstruct is a fantastic package that will install KDE 3.1RC5
	and a few other packages. This will describe the setps I had
	to take to build successfully. Fell free to mail me updates to
	the document or questions <waite@skycomputers.com>
Legend:
	% - User command prompt. These commands can be run a a general
	user
	# - Root command prompt. You must be root to run command.


Requirements:
o Yellowdog Linux 2.3 with all updates via apt-get
o An installation of All Packages was used so I know I had many libs
that others may not have. All I can say is ther should be on your
distro CD.


Pre-Installation:
There were a few libraries that I could not find in my tree or
outdated that are requied so I had to do a bit of work ahead of time. 
o /usr/lib/libcdparanoia.a 
  A new version on the cdparanioa RPM was needed. I used 
cdparanoia-9.8-2cl.ppc.rpm from http://rpmfind.net and it installed cleanly.

o You may need to install a new version of cdda also:
   libcdda0-9.8-2cl.ppc.rpm
   libcdda-devel-9.8-2cl.ppc.rpm
   libcdda-devel-static-9.8-2cl.ppc.rpm

Konstruct on PPC

% cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.kde.org:/home/kde co kdenonbeta/konstruct

% cd kdenonbeta/konstruct/meta
% make install
Wait a LONG time

Eventually the compile will finish and you now have kde 3.1RC 5
located in ~/kde3.1-rc5
To run KDE3.1RC5 instead of KDE 3.0: (excerpt from the konstruct
README)

After installation you have to set some variables allowing your system to find
KDE binaries and libraries and KDE to allow to find its own files, for Bash:

  export QTDIR=~/kde3.1-rc5
  export KDEDIR=~/kde3.1-rc5

  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/kde3.1-rc5/lib
  export PATH=~/kde3.1-rc5/bin:$PATH

Setting KDEHOME too, e.g. "export KDEHOME=~/.kdetest", will tell KDE to save
your settings to this directory and leave default ~/.kde directory unaffected.

The complete KDE desktop is started with "startkde", most distributions start
it if you set it to the WINDOWMANAGER variable in your shell initializations.




Caveats:
I have coma across a few issues wit KDE 3.1RC5 so far.
1) startkde seems to hang on me during the first step of loading.
   I don't use startkde anymore. I basically start a second X server
   on display 1 (ie C-A F8)
   % X :1
   % export DISPLAY=:1
   % kdeinit &
   % ksmserver
     KDE 3.1RC5 shoudl be started

2) If you decide to set KDEHOME and want to keep you old settings make
   sure to copy .kde to $KDEHOME befire starting kde

3) Kmail 1.5 (KDE3.1) has trouble parsing Kmail 1.4 (KDE3.0) mail
   messages. All of my mail messages from old KDE display grabage

 
   
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