KDE 3 problems

[Kimball Larsen]

Nevermind, I answered my own question:

install the XFree86-xdm package first.

Thanks anyhow!

-Kimball Larsen

On Sun, 2002-05-05 at 14:11, Kimball Larsen wrote:
> I have a different error that I can't seem to find a solution to:
> 
> When I try to do the rpm --replacefiles -i * to do the install of the
> KDE 3.0 packages, I get this error:
> 
> 
> error: failed dependencies:
> 	/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers is needed by kdebase-3.0.0-2b
> 	/etc/X11/xdm/Xwilling is needed by kdebase-3.0.0-2b
> 
> However, I have been unable to find anything about Xservers or Xwilling
> in the xdm packages or on the web...
> 
> any ideas?
> 
> -Kimball Larsen
> 
> On Sun, 2002-05-05 at 11:06, Pat Plummer wrote:
> > Rob:
> > 
> > >I get an error that the 
> > >control panel has crashed.  Specifically:
> > >The application KDE Control Panel (kicker) has crashed and caused the 
> > >signal 4 (SIGLL)
> > >Any idea how to deal with this?
> > 
> > Unfortunately, I can't help you with this one since I did it the painful
> > way -- removing the old and installing the new.
> > 
> > >In addition, once I have it installed I would like to use the new
> > >'liquid' 
> > >theme, also linked to on the YDL home page.  I've downloaded the
> > >source, 
> > >and when trying to do ./configure, I get the following:
> > >...
> > >Checking for working makeinfo ... missing
> > >Checking for gcc ... gcc
> > >Checking for C compiler default output ... configure: error: C Compiler
> > >cannot create executables.
> > >What's wrong?  I don't do this type of stuff too often, but makeinfo
> > >seems familiar.  I've looked for a package to install it but can't see
> > >anything obvious.  Make is installed.  So is gcc.
> > >Help?
> > 
> > This looks like you don't have all the rpms installed to do a make. I've
> > had this happen on a new install. I can't tell you all the rpms to
> > install, but make sure automake etc installed.
> > 
> > Also, make sure you download the latest source (0.9.4).A caveat:
> > 
> > when you do make install, it will install everything into /usr/local/kde
> > and then will ask you to make sure you add /usr/local/kde/bin to your
> > path. This is silly since no directory by this name gets made in the
> > install.What I had to do is take the files in /usr/local/kde/bin and cp
> > them to the appropriate kde folders in /usr/share and /usr/lib. It works
> > with respect to the color schemes etc, but I don't get the throbbing
> > buttons etc I thought I would.
> > 
> > If anyone has advice (Dan?) on how to do this more artfully, I'd like to
> > know :) .
> > 
> > HTH,
> > 
> > Pat
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