I tried installing KDE on my virtual xp before also, but all it did was download a whole lot of packages, leave them in the downloaded directory, and start a couple of installers. I'm not much of a technical expert on windows, so I gave up for the time being.
<br><br>I'll try it again with your guide though, thanks!<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">S Page</b> <<a href="mailto:skierpage@earthlink.net">skierpage@earthlink.net</a>
> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hello. <a href="http://chehrlic.blogspot.com/">http://chehrlic.blogspot.com/
</a> motivated me to run KDE Install<br>for Windows and with some help from SaroEngels on IRC I got some apps<br>running on Windows! KStars and KMahjongg!<br><br>I couldn't find any information about doing this anywhere outside
<br>chehrlic's blog, so I created<br><a href="http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_on_Windows/Running">http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_on_Windows/Running</a><br>and linked to it from the parent.<br>I hope that's OK, feel free to delete if it's
<br>premature/incorrect/out-of-place.<br><br>I ran into a lot of problems, I put them in the Discussion page<br><a href="http://techbase.kde.org/Talk:Projects/KDE_on_Windows/Running">http://techbase.kde.org/Talk:Projects/KDE_on_Windows/Running
</a><br><br>A few are in the earlier thread "some issue with kdelibs-beta4-3.95.1":<br><br>1. Adding KDEDIRS=C:\KDE4 helped me with IO, as Mr. Habacker found.<br><br>Mr. Ehrlicher wrote:<br>> kde4/bin is not in the PATH and/or
kbuildsycoca4.exe is not there.<br><br>2. Following a blog comment I have C:\KDE4\lib in my PATH. Should I<br>also/instead have C:\KDE4\bin in my PATH?<br><br>3. I found running kbuildsycoca4 by hand avoided okular and KStars crashing.
<br><br>Should 1,2 & 3 go in the Running instructions?<br><br><br>Is there a list of known issues with current KDE4 on Windows?<br><br>I looked at <a href="http://bugs.kde.org">bugs.kde.org</a>. Searching for op_sys=MS+Windows shows only
<br>five open bugs on Windows. Ship it ;-) Am I querying the wrong way?<br><br><br>I could paste the rest of the problems I encountered from the Discussion<br>page in here, or I could file a bug for each one, or I could do nothing.
<br> Let me know what would help the project.<br><br>Thanks for your work, I can't imagine how hard it must have been to get<br>this far with a Windows port.<br>--<br>=S Page<br>_______________________________________________
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