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