KDE 3 problems

Sun May 5 19:44:01 2002

Man, that's _all_ the problems you had?

I just spent a couple of hours tracing RPM dependencies, installing and 
removing various things from my pretty-stock-standard YDL 2.2 install 
(yup'd up to date) before I could install KDE 3.

Now I've done it, I'm not sure what all the fuss is about... ? if the 
splash screen wasn't so much prettier, I don't think I'd even notice the 
upgrade....

anyway.

nigel

On Monday, May 6, 2002, at 06:24 AM, Kimball Larsen wrote:

> 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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