Withdrawal request for KDE 3.1.1 pkgs for 8.0
Well. I guess their won't be any feedback about KDE 3.1.1 packages for 8.0. Doesn't matter.. I used Konstruct to compile it all...it took 12 hours but it works fine..even those pesky XScreensaver modules work now..and I thought that was a hopeless case. I'd recommend Konstruct to anyone who has the processor and bandwidth. It's pretty slick. :) latah, -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I'll tell you what you should see.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 22 March 2003 00:50 am, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
Well. I guess their won't be any feedback about KDE 3.1.1 packages for 8.0. Doesn't matter.. I used Konstruct to compile it all...it took 12 hours but it works fine..even those pesky XScreensaver modules work now..and I thought that was a hopeless case.
I'd recommend Konstruct to anyone who has the processor and bandwidth. It's pretty slick. :)
latah,
Ben, did you have to set the prefix and any other parameters/flags? Or did it do a config when you made the program. I'd hate to have my kde packages put into /usr/share like RH (which I just install v-8.0 psyche on my test sys... curious. Uh... bluecurve?). Anyway, if you can give me a few tips/heads up I'd appreciate it greatly! Cheers, Curtis :) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+fBFj7WVLiDrqeksRAhAMAJwIm/ZxY3CWCadDkSEJzQdKk7abtQCdF9B+ VnRtMAsinBIGfDJ8VPrk1yc= =cWn3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
* Curtis Rey (crrey@charter.net) [030321 23:34]: -> ->Ben, did you have to set the prefix and any other parameters/flags? Or did it ->do a config when you made the program. I'd hate to have my kde packages put ->into /usr/share like RH (which I just install v-8.0 psyche on my test sys... ->curious. Uh... bluecurve?). -> ->Anyway, if you can give me a few tips/heads up I'd appreciate it greatly! I just followed the instructions located here.. http://konsole.kde.org/konstruct/ There is a main config file for the whole build system. You can specify the prefix in this file and it just installs everything there. The one thing it's lacking is the ability to call something like checkinstall or another script to make rpm's. It basically compiles and installs everything but it does do it in pkg format. I just mv'ed /opt/kde3 to /opt/back.kde3 in case it totally screwed up..then I would just delete it and move the other back. I'm not worry as I'm going to take this box to 8.2 when it comes out and there better be KDE 3.1.x pkgs available for 8.2. :) Everything seems to work. The only issue I had was Kopete crashing when it tried to log into ICQ...it worked fine with AIM and Jabber but ICQ crashed it. But the as mysteriously as it died logging into ICQ..it started working and has since. I've restarted Kopete 6 times to make sure. *shrug* Could have been a hiccup on ICQ's network that it didn't like..who knows. All in all it wasn't that much of a PITA accept it took 12 hours on my little 800MHz Duron...I think the Athlon XP upgrade is in the future for me. :) latah. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I'll tell you what you should see.
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There is a main config file for the whole build system. You can specify the prefix in this file and it just installs everything there. The one thing it's lacking is the ability to call something like checkinstall or another script to make rpm's. It basically compiles and installs everything but it does do it in pkg format. I just mv'ed /opt/kde3 to /opt/back.kde3 in case it totally screwed up..then I would just delete it and move the other back. I'm not worry as I'm going to take this box to 8.2 when it comes out and there better be KDE 3.1.x pkgs available for 8.2. :)
It has default k 3.1 and X 4.3, no issue with the fonts and the full range of fonts were available. Also, though not a fan, Gnome 2 is much more well rounded and functional. Warning, during beta1 I exe'd the Nautilus network browser and it went into an infinite loop, and did so each time I logged into KDE (last count before I could get to logout without save current session tag was 200+ instances of Nautilus - lol, can you say suck every mem resource available and then some - crawl, crawl,...). They jump right on my bug rep and in beta 3 no such problem - but beware in case of updates to Gnome2 - still a bit of a problemed child in SuSE (and I really don't like RH default for Gnome2 and Bluecurve - uggh but I digress).
Everything seems to work. The only issue I had was Kopete crashing when it tried to log into ICQ...it worked fine with AIM and Jabber but ICQ crashed it. But the as mysteriously as it died logging into ICQ..it started working and has since. I've restarted Kopete 6 times to make sure. *shrug* Could have been a hiccup on ICQ's network that it didn't like..who knows.
All in all it wasn't that much of a PITA accept it took 12 hours on my little 800MHz Duron...I think the Athlon XP upgrade is in the future for me. :)
I'm running a XP 1800+ and it is much faster. My test machine is an Celery 800 and I can really notice the difference. If you've a fat pipe, then dl's and install are noticably faster. Also, if you get a new mobo with that it will also make a diff IMHO-YMMV. After doing the beta of 8.2 I think they have pulled alot together. It's similar to the consolidation and stability the 7.x series went through. By the time they rolled out 7.3 things were pretty solid AFAICT. Then all the new things in 8.0. Many liked it but in my case 8.1's kernel had the update for the Promise PDC20276 IDE ata133/raid onboard controller and it worked fine, execpt one must enter kernel param "ide-reverse" or the PDC inits 1st and no root fs found, this is true with the init at install as well. YaST2 is much better, didn't really have the opportunity to go in depth because they only had test packages to get the updates protocol config'ed and online There is also a program the polls the ftp-update server at SuSE and lets you know what packages are there and if any new ones show up, that way you don't have to exe YOU and "WAIT" to find out that none of the updates pertain to your sys. As far as Konstruct is concerned I will be cautious. Now that I have a test machine I do all my tweaking on that. So, if I hose something I don't have to worry about recovering a sys with all my data being lost. I might install 8.1 on the test bed and then see how I do with getting Konstruct to work. Though I'd be in the same boat as you, seeing that my cpu is 800MHz. Regardless of a fat pipe, if Konstruct does tarballs and compiles we're talking, what?, something in the neighborhood of 300+megs of tarballs? Ugh, unfolding and compiles could be painfully long winded. Thanks for the heads up, Cya :) Curtis. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+fCPN7WVLiDrqeksRAjfQAJ4thi0LLo/AOSY0SvRVoHf8twJr/wCdH/Fb n4JBmnIXL7lg6fmE9zh0SCE= =7yIh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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