VERY IMPORTANT: THESE BINARIES ARE CREATED FROM THE CVS AND MAY NOT BE IDENTICAL TO THE BETA THAT WAS RELEASED. THESE ARE NOT OFFICIAL KDE BINARIES. THIS CODE IS BUILT FROM THE CVS - MOST OF THE TIME IT WORKS. MORE IMPORTANT: (And don't say I didn't tell you!) MAKE A COPY OF YOUR .kde and /opt/kde2 directories so if something doesn't work you have options (like going back). This will be the last build in June. Please note there are new package names in the RPMS and some of the packages have been split into multiple RPMS. Please even if you are ftp'ing check the web page at http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~molnarc/index.html for directions. ALSO, THE PACKAGES HAVE MOVED TO A NEW SERVER THANKS TO MANDRAKE. PLEASE CHECK THE LINKS BELOW. A new version of the KDE ALPHA binaries are available at us.mandrakesoft.com. Please read the README file in the same directory. Just in case you missed it "READ THE README" prior to doing anything! If you need help installing please go to www.kde.org and look for directions. These binaries are built from CVS as of 19 May 2000 at 12:00am Eastern Standard Time (-0500). Please bring all install questions to the un-official kde-alpha list at kde-alpha-request@nebsllc.com. Qt version 2.1.1 has been released. These binaries where built with the release package. You can get the released version used to build this code at any Mandrake mirror, or you can get it elsewhere. When you upgrade plese consider copying your old /opt/kde2 to an /opt/kde2.old directory and then installing. This way you have something to go back to. These files are available via ftp from: ftp://us.mandrakesoft.com/pub/kde or via http at: http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~molnarc (follow links for kde2 Alpha binaries) You will also be able to find these at (after a few days): http://www.htw-dresden.de/~s2697 The RPMS can be found in the next few days at any Mandrake Cooker mirror site. Make sure you get the 20000619 version. The installs have been tested by me on a Mandrake 7.1 machine. They have also been reported to work on all other distributions. The rpm's are built with Mandrake 7.1. If you are not running the most recent version of rpm, I would suggest an upgrade. You may need to do a --force and a --nodeps on the rpm installs. If you are running prior Alphas or Betas I highly recommend you update. There are a lot of fixes and some structural changes in the packages. You will also find Source tar.gz's in the same directory. -- -------------------------------------------------------- Christopher Molnar,RHCE New England Business Services, LLC Mandrake Software Hartford, CT USA (860)956-9408 molnarc@nebsllc.com molnarc@mandrakesoft.com "It said uses Windows 95 or better, so I loaded Linux!" -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/