KDE 3.1

[Brian Waite]

A slight correction to this. Download knostruct only. It will download all the 
other sources. I am writing this from a konstruct-ed KDE 3.1 insall as we 
speak :)

Thanks
Brian
On Monday 10 February 2003 11:56 pm, Mathew Eis wrote:
> Hello Lee,
>
> I can answer some, but not all of your questions...
>
> There are no KDE 3.1 rpm's for YDL that I know of yet.
>
> Although I haven't done it myself yet, the best way to build KDE 3.1
> seems to be to download konstruct, (http://konsole.kde.org/konstruct/)
> and all the KDE 3.1 sources. (downloads.kde.org), and then use
> konstruct to compile KDE.
>
> Your machine should run with a non-smp kernel - As to how much speed
> you would lose, I would assume that you would really only notice a big
> hit when running multiple processes, since the kernel doesn't actually
> split a program between multiple CPU's.
>
> After you have switched to the non-SMP kernel, provided that the kernel
> was built with MOL support, you should be able to rebuild the modules,
> and it should work fine.
>
> Look on the YDL CD - there are several non-smp kernels as part of the
> distro. Assuming you use the same version kernel as your SMP, the
> headers should be the same, and you should only have to replace the
> kernel itself.
>
> I believe that on newworld machines, the kernel is in the /boot
> directory, and is called vmlinux, possibly vmlinux_2.4, or something
> similar.
>
> -Mathew
>
> On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 08:25  AM, Lee Parry wrote:
> > Hi List,
> >
> > Well I am what you might call a newbie. I installed YDL 2.3 on my Dual
> > G4
> > 500mhz, and all is well (after a bit of bother with the old 17" Studio
> > Display issue).
> >
> > What I was wondering is this... Under X (on my work machine) I've
> > installed
> > KDE 3.1 via Fink. I was wondering if/how I would go about upgrading
> > the KDE
> > version on my YDL machine at home?
> >
> > Preferably downloading all the needed files here at work first and
> > burning
> > them to cd.
> >
> > Also, I'm using the SMP kernel at the moment, but it seems to mean
> > that I
> > can't use MOL. I've tried recompiling the MOL Libraries, but no go.
> > Can I
> > only use MOL with a non-smp kernel? And if so, 1. How much speed
> > difference
> > will I see by giving up SMP? And 2. How do I change the kernel?
> >
> > I know these are probably stupid questions, but if someone could let me
> > know, even if it is to just tell me I'm a moron.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Lee
> >
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