Looking over the messages posted here, I'm trying to decide if I should install KDE 2.1.1. It seems that there's a nasty bug, with no known workaround or fix, pertaining to anti-aliased fonts; if you include them, then a bunch of things like the kicker panel fail, but if you don't install them you can't get any TrueType fonts to work. There also seem to be problems relating to qt-experimental (maybe the same problem); the SuSE website doesn't say that qt-experimental is needed, though, and also provides vanilla qt. There are also possible dependencies on the version of X one is using, but I haven't found a clear description of those. Has anyone gotten all this stuff to work successfully? What combination of components did you use? Or am I best advised to stay away from the bleeding edge for a while? Paul Abrahams
Hello Paul,
On 2001-04-21 12:40:45 -0400,
Paul Abrahams
Looking over the messages posted here, I'm trying to decide if I should install KDE 2.1.1. It seems that there's a ... Or am I best advised to stay away from the bleeding edge for a while?
For what's it worth, trying to install kde 2.1.1 on SuSE 6.3
(ehm, yes i know not bleeding edge itself, but suse does offer
kde 2.2.1 for 6.3 and updating a 24/7 server to 7.1 is not
something i want to do...) was a real nightmare: when i finally
managed after all sorts of strange dependency problems,
konqueror and other apps (but not netscape!) crashed and halted
kde when loading jpeg's due to a library load error, it
expected libjpeg 6.1 while 6.2 was installed (that I needed
for other things, but the old libjpeg imho does not work
either as that was 6.0 if im not mistaken).
But I'm looking forward to experiences otherwise :-)
Good luck,
Eric
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I seem to have been lucky this time, but on two machines running 7.1 I installed the original rpms for 2.1.1 with no difficulties of any kind. This was an install over 2.1, which I had installed over 2.0. I downloaded all the rpms including qt, and updated them with rpm -Fvh, in the order qt, kde-support, kdelibs, kdebase, the rest, and then ran SuSEconfig. Everything worked first time. I am using kernel 2.2.18 - is this making a difference? -- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB +44 161 834 7961 +44 161 839 5797
Looking over the messages posted here, I'm trying to decide if I should install KDE 2.1.1. It seems that there's a nasty bug, with no known workaround or fix, pertaining to
I'd recommend installing. The first rpms for 2.1.1 did have a problem (I was one of the people who discovered that!), but if you install from the current ftp site, everything should be OK.
Hi All & Kaare Rasmussen, who typed... <snip>
Looking over the messages posted here, I'm trying to decide if I should install KDE 2.1.1. It seems that there's a nasty bug, with no known workaround or fix, pertaining to
I'd recommend installing. The first rpms for 2.1.1 did have a problem (I was one of the people who discovered that!), but if you install from the current ftp site, everything should be OK.
<snip> I have been following this thread for a bit. Here is my experience. KDE 2.1.1, ex SuSE dated the 25th of March, went into my machine ok.... But KDE was a tad dodgy, with Vmware, so.... KDE 2.1.1, ex SuSE dated around the 8th of April, killed my KDE ./root/./kde2 directory contents.... No amount of yast or various rpm tricks, would recreate those key pointers, so I eventually re-installed SuSE 7.1 pro (I must register....), & then I used rpm, to finally upgrade to the April 8th batch. Sigh. The moral of this story is the oldest in the book, when yall asked if yall wanna back up, before installing in Yast-1, say YES!!!! :-) Sigh.... That is what I have to convey about KDE 2.1.1...... *BFN* Greek Geek :-) "If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up." -- Max Von Sydow's character in "Hannah and Her Sisters"
Scanning through my mail I may have missed earlier responses to this message if so I apologise for any repetition. WRT anti-aliased fonts or TrueType fonts (I only assume that they refer to the same thing), it dawned on me from following threads on these topics that the problem might be more fundamental, viz. that there are no such fonts in the specified fonts directories. Switching anti-aliased fonts on in the CC killed my KDE setup. Checking the fonts directory I found the TT directory empty and then proceed to copy files to it from my windows partition and from off my Corel wordperfect CD. Having done so, I attempted the startup KDE and everything was fine. Eddie On Saturday 21 April 2001 17:40, Paul Abrahams wrote:
Looking over the messages posted here, I'm trying to decide if I should install KDE 2.1.1. It seems that there's a nasty bug, with no known workaround or fix, pertaining to anti-aliased fonts; if you include them, then a bunch of things like the kicker panel fail, but if you don't install them you can't get any TrueType fonts to work. There also seem to be problems relating to qt-experimental (maybe the same problem); the SuSE website doesn't say that qt-experimental is needed, though, and also provides vanilla qt.
There are also possible dependencies on the version of X one is using, but I haven't found a clear description of those.
Has anyone gotten all this stuff to work successfully? What combination of components did you use?
Or am I best advised to stay away from the bleeding edge for a while?
Paul Abrahams
WRT anti-aliased fonts or TrueType fonts (I only assume that they refer to the same thing), it dawned on me from following threads on these topics that the problem might be more fundamental, viz. that there are no such fonts in the specified fonts directories. Switching anti-aliased fonts on in the CC killed my KDE setup. Checking the fonts directory I found the TT directory empty and then proceed to copy files to it from my windows partition and from off my Corel wordperfect CD. Having done so, I attempted the startup KDE and everything was fine.
Hmmm... That didn't seem to work for me. I have plenty of truetype fonts, unfortunately, I still have problems with Kicker crashing in 2.1.1 - but not 2.1. -Tim -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler Universal Networks Information Tech. Consultant Christian Web Services Since 1996 ICQ #12495932 AIM: Uninettm An Authorized IPSwitch Reseller tbutler@uninetsolutions.com http://www.uninetsolutions.com ============== "Information Powered by Innovation" ==============
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