On Sunday 05 September 2004 21:07, Alex Nordstrom wrote: >On Monday, 6 Sep 2004 07:16, Zé wrote: >> There arent packages og kde3.3 for mandrake, in cooker there still >> are kde3.2.3. >> so what i suggest (that is what i do), is to have the kde >> installed of mandrake, and then to have the latest kde and still >> have the menus in menudrake, is to download the sources from >> ftp.kde.org and compile them that they will overwrite the kde >> binarys installed. > >Overwrite the binaries provided by the package management system of > your distribution with locally compiled files? That's what > /usr/local is for. I'm beginning to suspect what the origin of some > of the bizarre KDE and KMail problems you seem to be having might > be. I wondered about that myself. I have NOT seen any of the weird problems posted on this list, and I built kde-3.3 using konstruct. It took about 3 weeks for all the stuff to be brought into line, and everytime the build bailed out, I waited a couple of days, then did a cvs up -dP in the top level dir, and restarted my 'makekde' script. When it finally went thru, I changed the appropriate env vars to point at the new install in /root/.bashrc (konstruct is defaulted to put it in /root/kde3.3, but you can change this), exited X, logged out and back in and did a startx from the cli. And I've never switched it back to 3.2.3, no reason to. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.25% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.