Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (241 mails)

[Leendert Meyer <leen.meyer@xxxxxxx>]

On Friday 17 January 2003 05:40, Daniel Eckl wrote:
> Hi Fox!
>
> Using software compiled from source and using yast to maintain packages
> will get you in serious trouble IMHO.
>
> The only way to have both is: Build your software from sources and make
> RPM's out of them which you then can install via rpm (yast, etc).

Yes, this would be the Right Way. So, wait, until SuSE has the rpm's for 
KDE-3.1 ready and install those.

But: there's a 3rd way that I like to add:

  http://konsole.kde.org/konstruct/

This is a kind of "Fancy Makefile System", and will download, compile, and 
install kde (currently: kde-3.1-rc6) for you, together with a lot of bells 
and wistles - if you want.

I installed kde-3.1-rc6 in my home directory (~/kde-3.1-rc6) and use this 
little script to start it on the 2nd graphical console <ctrl>-<alt>+<f8>:

----<kdetest>---
#! /bin/bash

KDE_VER="kde3.1-rc6"

export QTDIR="$HOME/$KDE_VER"
export KDEDIR="$HOME/$KDE_VER"
  
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$KDEDIR/lib"
export PATH="$KDEDIR/bin:$PATH"

export KDEHOME="$HOME/.kdetest"

WINDOWMANAGER="$KDEDIR/bin/startkde" startx -- :1
----<kdetest>---

If the rpm's of kde-3.1 come out, I'll remove ~/kde-3.1-rc6, rename ~/.kdetest 
to .kde and install the rpm's.

Cheers,

Leen