On Friday 22 February 2002 08:22 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Saturday 23 February 2002 02.01, Anthony W. Marino wrote:
Will the installation of the beta rpms from the SuSE ftp site allow this installation installation to coexist with a previous KDE 2.2.2 installation or should KDE 3 beta2 be installed from source to facilitate that???
I would like to be able to run either at will until I'm confident I can let KDE2.2.2 go.
It will work perfectly, and won't disturb your kde2 setup at all. All kde2 files reside in /opt/kde2 and your local config is in ~/.kde2. The kde3 beta will land in /opt/kde3 (you can check with rpm -qpl package.rpm to make absolutely certain). If there had been any "collisions" with kde2 programs rpm would have warned you (file "foo" from package kdebase3.rpm collides with file "foo" from package kdebase.rpm, or words to that effect).
Also, to make sure the config files are separate, the variable KDEHOME decides where they land. It is set in /opt/kde3/bin/startkde, so edit that to satisfy yourself that everything is OK.
There are only two things I can think of that kde2 and kde3-beta uses and that's ~/KDesktop and ~/Mail. KDesktop is all your desktop links and icons, and Mail is where kmail stores your mail.
But if you, like me, are truly paranoid about these things, create a test user and log in as that user to try out kde3. I have one user set for kde3 and one for gnome2 (where are the rpms, suse?). That way I can be sure of never messing up my "main" account.
regards Anders
Some things I had to do: 1) Added a new "login/session" of "kde3" in the "Control Center" This relates to the installation entry: "/usr/X11R6/bin/kde3" which is a symlink to "/opt/kde3/bin/startkde". NOTE: The SuSE/YAST1 installation had added double forward slashes to the above "kde3" path which I removed and corrected (ie; "/usr//X11R6//bin/kde3"). 2)Updated ".xinitrc" to include a check for "kde3" windowmanager and then added the path as "/usr/X11R6/bin/kde3" to facilitate execution. Problem: I didn't have any icons on my panel with the exception of the task icon and the desktop icon. Anthony I made the changes to .xinitrc to include a check for "kde3" session (which I added in the "control