indeed, ... and it works just great ...
here is the story, trimmed a little bit :
first thing : unless specified otherwise, KDE installs itself under
$HOME/kde3.2 which is great for early testings
1. downloaded 'konstruct' as suggested
2. put it in my very personal $HOME/down/kde/konstruct-stable.tar.bz2 and
uncompressed it in ( $KON= ) $HOME/down/kde/konstruct
3. read the README file
3. went to $KON/kde/kdebase and i executed 'make install'
4. it failed because i am behind a firewall, i re-read the README file and
i configured wget with the firewall settings
created a .wgetrc file with this content :
ftp_proxy=http://<machine-name>:<port-no>
5. reran 'make install' and noticed konstruct already started to download
the source files
6. got an error saying some Perl prce libraries were not found; the error
was also giving the URL for the libraries;
went there, got them and installed them
7. again i restarted konstruct which continue from the the point it left
8. few hours later, all the stuff from 'kdebase' was downloaded, built and
installed in my $HOME/kde3.2
9. few twicks
i have changed my .cshrc ( 'cause i use csh ) by adding these vars as
suggested by README
## KDE 3.2 settings
setenv QTDIR "~/kde3.2"
setenv KDEDIRS "~/kde3.2"
setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH "~/kde3.2/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
setenv PATH "~/kde3.2/bin:${PATH}"
setenv KDETEST "~/.kdetest"
10. before going further, here is what i have noticed after issuing
'startkde' command ( $HOME/kde3.2/bin )
- my older preferences ( prev. KDE was installed as root, packaged etc. )
were mostly lost
- the lock screen needs killed from outside ( the README suggests what
needs be changed for this to work but i did not have time do do it, yet )
11. issued 'startkde' and waited the new desktop to take over the older one
( which it did ... )
12. started to tweak the desktop, konsole etc. while issuing 'make install'
inside other directories located in my $KON/kde directory.
**** overall i am very very impressed by this new version, and, indeed, it
is way way faster and more polished than the other one ****
13. i plan to do the same thing with my notebook at home ( IBM R31 ) this
week-end and later next weeks move the installation as root
hope this helps,
-ionut-
m.fioretti@inwind
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Greetings,
has anybody already packaged/tried to package KDE 3.2 and/or
KOffice 1.3 for shrike? Are there RPMs already available?
To build them, are there any particular gotchas?
TIA,
Marco Fioretti
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