KDE 3.5.1 Befuddlement

Hi KDE'ers,

You helping me to install KDE 3.5.1 would be appreciated since I am stuck. This is part of the situation:

/home/jjdevine or kdedev/konstruct/kde/kdebase/work/kdebase-3.5.1/

contains an array of files, only the ".png" ones binary and none with filetype "bzip" or "zip", that must be the total composition of KDE 3.5.1..

Below is what I get when I try and install.

"jjdevine@69-175-202-50:~> cd ~/konstruct/meta/everything; make install

[===== NOW BUILDING: everything-1 =====]

install -d download

[fetch] complete for everything.

install -d cookies

[checksum] complete for everything.

install -d work

[extract] complete for everything.

install -d work/everything-1

[patch] complete for everything.

==> Building kde/kdebase as a dependency

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jjdevine/konstruct/kde/kdebase'

[===== NOW BUILDING: kdebase-3.5.1 =====]

[fetch] complete for kdebase.

[checksum] complete for kdebase.

[extract] complete for kdebase.

[patch] complete for kdebase.

==> Building kde/kdelibs as a dependency

make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jjdevine/konstruct/kde/kdelibs'

[===== NOW BUILDING: kdelibs-3.5.1 =====]

[fetch] complete for kdelibs.

[checksum] complete for kdelibs.

[extract] complete for kdelibs.

[patch] complete for kdelibs.

==> Building libs/arts as a dependency

make[3]: Entering directory `/home/jjdevine/konstruct/libs/arts'

[===== NOW BUILDING: arts-1.5.1 =====]

[fetch] complete for arts.

[checksum] complete for arts.

[extract] complete for arts.

[patch] complete for arts.

==> Building libs/glib as a dependency

make[4]: Entering directory `/home/jjdevine/konstruct/libs/glib'

[===== NOW BUILDING: glib-2.8.6 =====]

[fetch] complete for glib.

[checksum] complete for glib.

[extract] complete for glib.

[patch] complete for glib.

==> Building misc/pkgconfig as a dependency

make[5]: Entering directory `/home/jjdevine/konstruct/misc/pkgconfig'

[===== NOW BUILDING: pkg-config-0.20 =====]

[fetch] complete for pkg-config.

[checksum] complete for pkg-config.

[extract] complete for pkg-config.

[patch] complete for pkg-config.

==> Running configure in work/pkg-config-0.20

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c

checking whether build environment is sane... yes

checking for gawk... gawk

checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes

checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no

checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu

checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu

checking for style of include used by make... GNU

checking for gcc... cc

checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables

See `config.log' for more details.

make[5]: *** [configure-work/pkg-config-0.20/configure] Error 77

make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/jjdevine/konstruct/misc/pkgconfig'

make[4]: *** [dep-../../misc/pkgconfig] Error 2

make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/jjdevine/konstruct/libs/glib'

make[3]: *** [dep-../../libs/glib] Error 2

make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/jjdevine/konstruct/libs/arts'

make[2]: *** [dep-../../libs/arts] Error 2

make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jjdevine/konstruct/kde/kdelibs'

make[1]: *** [dep-../../kde/kdelibs] Error 2

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jjdevine/konstruct/kde/kdebase'

make: *** [dep-../../kde/kdebase] Error 2"

I did get KDE 3.5 installed. It took 4 hours (I'm 2.3 GHz)! I liked it for the brief time it ran. After shutting down, actual off, for the night the monitor would not come on the next day! I read about the reason and deleted many of the suspect "tmp" files after I did an reinstall of my SUSE Linux 10.1. Now I'm setting up to run KDE 3.5.1 as another user logged in.

Thanks very much. Though a "newbie" at this bit I'm not a stranger to computers having had many involvements as an engineer since my degree in '54. Having enjoyed coding, it initially replaced my slide rule!, rather than watch TV which I don't do anyway the idea of trying to do some coding for open source seems a nice idea being retired and uninvolved, at least not overwhelmingly engaged.

Besides, I often get that "itch" I've heard you refer to as a motivator for code! For example on my SUSE Linux computer I like to use the pages and, besides having them shown at the bottom I'd like the "Desk Number" to stay on the screen longer then 200 milliseconds when changing "screens". And I'd like to get the video, sound, et al working better on my Linux setup than it does on my Windows XP which I very rarely use.

Thanks again.

John J. Devine